#erica

There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present. ↗

— Walter Salles

#america #latin #latin america #leprosy #much

We all knew the book well because it's the cult book in Latin America. For me, this was a sacred territory. I would not have ventured into it by myself. ↗

— Walter Salles

#because #book #cult #i #into

There is more openness in LA to possibilities than on the East Coast of America. There is a pioneering spirit there that stems from the reason people went out there in the first place-to find something new. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#coast #east #east coast #find #first

With American orchestras, in particular, because they play in such huge halls, getting a true pianissimo is very hard. ↗

— Esa-Pekka Salonen

#because #getting #halls #hard #huge

Being in America isn't old-hat - it's where we're from - but I get excited to be in other parts of the world like Athens and Croatia, which were quite cool. I'm a sightseer. I go see the sights and museums. I'm into that kind of thing. ↗

— Richie Sambora

#athens #being #cool #croatia #excited

We are a people that have always celebrated other people's success so long as we always had the opportunity to meet that success ourselves. That is the American nature. That is the American character. That is one of the things that makes us different from the rest of the world. And I'm afraid we could lose that or are on the verge of losing that. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#always #american #celebrated #character #could

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #american experience #continue #cornerstone #experience

We should be the pro-legal immigration party. A party that has a positive platform and agenda on how we can create a legal immigration system that works for immigrants and works for America. ↗

— Marco Rubio

#america #create #how #immigrants #immigration

When was the last time you heard news accounts of a boatload of American refugees arrive on the shores of another country? ↗

— Marco Rubio

#american #another #arrive #boatload #country

I'm a kid who grew up in an all African-American neighborhood and got into schools and aspired to just be me, and didn't worry about labels or anything. Just wanted to be a success at what I did. ↗

— Darius Rucker

#african-american #anything #aspired #did #got