Chile Quotes

• Chile isn't the biggest, richest or most powerful country in the world, but we should dedicate ourselves to transforming it into the best country in the world. We don't have a single minute to lose.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Powerful, World

  "Rightwinger Sebastián Piñera wins Chile presidency". www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2010.

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• I don't think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family, in the person that people expected me to be.

  Isabel Allende

  Thinking, People, Would Be

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• Chile is not a rich country in terms of gas, or oil or coal, but we are extremely rich in terms of the energies of the future.

  Sebastian Pinera

  Country, Rich Countries, Oil

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• I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones.

  Bruce Chatwin

  Wind, Rivers, White

  Bruce Chatwin (2003). “In Patagonia”, p.39, Penguin

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• Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

  Eli Roth

  Friendly, Talent, Terrific

  Interview with Elisa Osegueda, www.fandango.com. May 8, 2013.

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• Everything I did, all my actions, all of the problems I had I dedicate to God and to Chile, because I kept Chile from becoming Communist.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Becoming, Action, Problem

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• I'd rather be No. 2 in Chile and No. 1 in the world.

  Nicolas Massu

  Tennis, World

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• It doesn't matter who you are, or what you've done, or think you can do. There's a confrontation with destiny awaiting you. Somewhere, there is a chile you cannot eat.

  Daniel Pinkwater

  Food, Destiny, Thinking

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• Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

  George Galloway

  War, Blood, Hands

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• I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

  Isabel Allende

  Feminist, Catholic, Age

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• I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency.

  E. Howard Hunt

  Men, Agency, Careers

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• Chile have three options - they could win or they could lose.

  Kevin Keegan

  Soccer, Winning, Three

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• Mining created Chile. The story of men who go down into the mountain and chip away at minerals in the darkness and then suffer an accident that leaves them at the mercy of that darkness is part of the DNA of Chile, an integral part of the country's history.

  Ariel Dorfman

  Country, Men, Dna

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• As long-term institutions, I am totally against dictatorships. But a dictatorship may be a necessary system for a transitional period... Personally I prefer a liberal dictator to democratic government lacking liberalism. My personal impression - and this is valid for South America - is that in Chile, for example, we will witness a transition from a dictatorial government to a liberal government.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Government, America, Long

  "El Mercurio" Newspaper, 1981.

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• Chile needs Bolivian natural resources and Bolivia needs access to the sea. Under those circumstances, it must be possible to find a solution in the interest of both countries.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Sea, Needs

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The US has attacked countries like Grenada, Panama, Libya... the list of victims of US terrorism is almost infinite. And the US government's participation in torture, whether in El Salvador, Guatemala, Chile... is well-documented and widely known.

  Assata Shakur

  Country, Government, Guatemala

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• I have always said to workers that they have to work hard, to produce more and better. In Chile, we need to achieve an average annual income of US$2,000, and to do that we need to increase production.

  Salvador Allende

  Hard Work, Average, Income

  Source: realterrorist.wordpress.com

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• Nearly all of Latin America, from Chile to Mexico, is one long rack of torture. Financed, equipped, and refined by the U.S. government.

  Edward Abbey

  Latin, Government, America

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• The fact that Brazil and Chile now has China as their largest trading partner means the Monroe Doctrine is certainly something of the past.

  Dambisa Moyo

  Mean, Past, Doctrine

  "The New Maritime Silk Road". Interview with Parag Khanna, bigthink.com.

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• In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.

  Heinrich von Kleist

  Earthquakes, Pillars, Criminals

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• Anyway Ri Ri what rhymes wit your name really? Money got you vacationing in Chile

  Nicki Minaj

  Money, Names, Wit

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• People like to blame Mexican food, but look at what's happening globally, look at all the fast foods and products filled with trans fat. Before the Mexican Revolution, a hundred years ago, people were eating what now macrobiotics tells us to eat, corn, black beans, rice. That's what people were eating - and chile peppers. That's a healthy diet.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Years, People, Mexican

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• The chile, it seems to me, is one of the few foods that has its own goddess.

  Diana Kennedy

  Goddess, Seems

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• Old Molly Means was a hag and a witch;
  Chile of the devil, the dark, and sitch.

  Margaret Walker

  Mean, Dark, Evil

  Margaret Walker, “Molly Means”

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• When you add just a little bit [of Tabasco] at the end, what you taste is the spectrum between the cooked chile flavor and the kind of nearly raw, just kind of fermented chile flavor at the end.

  Mario Batali

  Add, Flavor, Littles

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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