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The European brand of fascism will probably present its most serious postwar threat to us via Latin America.
Henry A. Wallace

America, Serious, Present

The fascists in most Latin American countries tell the people that the reason their wages will not buy as much in the way of goods is because of Yankee imperialism. The fascists in Latin America learn to speak and act like natives.
Henry A. Wallace

America, Reason, Learn

Mr. Speaker, from hurricanes and floods in Latin America to earthquakes in Asia, natural disasters are increasingly becoming a regular feature of life for large numbers of people around the globe.
Earl Blumenauer

Life, America, Around

Most governments in Latin America have failed to recognize the rights of indigenous people and their right to their own traditional territories.
Bianca Jagger

America, Rights, Failed

Our ministry also supports orphanages in the U.S. and overseas, thousands of poor children in Latin America, drug centers for addicted men, and a drug center in Israel.
David Wilkerson

Men, Children, America

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.
Jose Saramago

Bad, America, Consider

I've noticed that my resolutions involve me not doing stuff that I wasn't going to do anyway so here's something more positive. I'm going to retrain as a Latin teacher in a provincial public school.
Arthur Smith

Positive, Teacher, School

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig

Hope, Give, American

I'm Latin - we start young, honey!
Zoe Saldana

Young, Start, Honey

Historically, foreign powers have always been the ones to keep Latin nations divided.
Evo Morales

Keep, Divided, Nations

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.
Noam Chomsky

America, Against, Potential

And I was in another band called Flash In The Pan, which was soca, Latin music, down in Laguna Beach.
Travis Barker

Music, Down, Another

Latin men are the most passionate men in the world - they may not be the most aggressive, but they are very passionate, very romantic.
Brooke Burke

Men, Romantic, May

Doing films in Latin America is like an act of faith. I mean, you really have to believe in what you're doing because if not, you feel like it's a waste of time because you might as well be doing something that at least pays you the rent.
Gael Garcia Bernal

Faith, Time, Mean

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress. These women have a very tough time, so much is expected of them.
Dionne Warwick

Time, Women, Men

Rural communities in Africa, South Asia and Latin America are where the majority of hungry people are and the inequality that exists between women and men in these communities is holding back progress.
Dionne Warwick

Women, Men, America

I'm half Puerto Rican and every Friday we have rice and beans and chicken in my house - so that's like a very Latin staple. It's just so comforting. I look forward to every single Friday because I just can't wait for my rice and beans and chicken.
Victoria Justice

Forward, Single, Wait

I never thought I would get such a perfect role in 'Modern Family.' A lot of TV shows now are looking for more Latin women.
Sofia Vergara

Family, Women, Thought

I'm a natural blonde. But when I started acting, I would go to auditions and they didn't know where to put me because I was voluptuous and had the accent, but I had blonde hair. It was ignorance: they thought every Latin person looks like Salma Hayek.
Sofia Vergara

Ignorance, Person, Thought

Latin women are very comfortable with their bodies and their sexuality. We aren't afraid to show that off a little bit more.
Sofia Vergara

Women, Afraid, Off

Latin guys dance. American guys don't dance. That's a big difference.
Sofia Vergara

Big, Dance, American

In Latin America, women are supposed to be voluptuous. They don't believe that you have to be skinny to be attractive.
Sofia Vergara

Women, America, Attractive

There are cultural issues everywhere - in Bangladesh, Latin America, Africa, wherever you go. But somehow when we talk about cultural differences, we magnify those differences.
Muhammad Yunus

America, Talk, Africa

I think for the U.S. government the Sandinistas represented a threat to their dominance of Latin America.
Bianca Jagger

Government, America, Threat

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.
Hilaire Belloc

Alone, Soul, Word

One night I'll be in Los Angeles and it'll be a Latin crowd, and then another night I'll go to Fresno and it'll be an all-black crowd. To me, that's the beauty of the music.
Pitbull

Beauty, Music, Night

Capitalism has only hurt Latin America.
Evo Morales

Hurt, America, Capitalism

We Indians are Latin America's moral reserve. We act according to a universal law that consists of three basic principles: do not steal, do not lie and do not be idle.
Evo Morales

Lie, Law, America

My Latin temper blows up pretty fast, but it goes down just as fast. Maybe that's why you seldom hear of ulcers in Latin America.
Desi Arnaz

Down, Pretty, America

I am astonished each time I come to the U.S. by the ignorance of a high percentage of the population, which knows almost nothing about Latin America or about the world. It's quite blind and deaf to anything that may happen outside the frontiers of the U.S.
Eduardo Galeano

Time, Ignorance, Nothing

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