Chileans Quotes

• I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Issues, People

  "The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence". Book by John D. Marks and Victor Marchetti, 1974.

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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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• I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.

  Pablo Neruda

  Love, Romantic, Spring

  Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair "Poem 14" l. 35 (1924) (translation byW. S. Merwin)

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• I think about Chilean literature as a family, because I grew up reading the literature of my country. I feel like I have fathers and stepfathers and a lot of brothers and sisters and distant cousins and all that.

  Alejandro Zambra

  Country, Brother, Cousin

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Paraguayans have no Italian blood and are half Guarani [Indian] blood. And the Chileans call themselves "the English of South America," which actually couldn't be further from the truth.

  John Gimlette

  Italian, Blood, America

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Marketers have long known that a name can make all the difference when you're trying to move the merch. The kiwifruit was once the Chinese gooseberry, after all - at least until the produce peddlers wised up - and the Chilean sea bass was once the singularly unappetizing Patagonian toothfish.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Moving, Sea, Names

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• There is something eminently Chilean about avoiding confrontation, or about not clarifying the way you feel sometimes. It's a particular culture, where emotions are not discussed as profusely with your family or friends, nor shown in an explicit manner.

  Omar Zuniga

  Culture, Way, Emotion

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

  Jonathan Messinger

  Awards, Years, Easy

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• I have lived with my conscience and my own memories for over quarter of a century since the events of 1973. These are not easy reflections for me. But I am at peace with myself, and with the Chilean people, about what happened. I am clear in my mind that the return to Chile of true democracy, and from that the true freedom to which all individual people are entitled, could not have been achieved without the removal of the Marxist government.

  Augusto Pinochet

  Memories, Reflection, Government

  Statement, November 08, 1998.

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• There has been a cultural shift. It is difficult to measure all that right now, but Chilean women have seen my presidency as a source of pride. Women are performing in jobs in Chile now that 20 or 30 years ago nobody would have dared to imagine.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Jobs, Pride, Years

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• Having experienced personally and through my family the tragedy of Chile is something always present in my memory. I do not want events of that nature ever to happen again, and I have dedicated an important part of my life to ensuring that and to the reunion of all Chileans.

  Michelle Bachelet

  Memories, Tragedy, Important

  "Michelle, top woman in a macho world". Interview with Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2006.

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• This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian.

  Stephen Colbert

  America, Giving, Mexican

  "Colbert in Congress: Politics - or self-parody?". www.nbcnews.com. September 24, 2010.

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• This is an instrument in the hands of the people for fighting the fascist saboteurs, because the Chilean armed forces are a guarantee of constitutionality and integrity.

  Salvador Allende

  Integrity, Fighting, Hands

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• I have experience and I am employing it in the service of a Chilean road for Chile's problems. We always take advantage of experience wherever it comes from, but adapting it to our reality. I am putting it to use in a Chilean way, for the problems of Chile. We are not anyone's mental colonists.

  Salvador Allende

  Reality, Use, Way

  Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.

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