Venezuela Quotes - Page 2

• In Venezuela, when I was living there, crime was growing. You couldn't feel safe anywhere. You couldn't leave your car in the street because it would be stolen. You coun't live in your house if you didn't have a high-security alarm system, because you would be burglarized seven times a week.

  Isabel Allende

  Car, House, Alarms

  "“Skirting the Brink: America’s Leading Thinkers and Activists Confide Their Views of Our Predicament”". Interview with Bob Baldock and Dennis Bernstein, www.motherjones.com. September 1994.

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• I'm afraid I didn't really like Caracas in Venezuela. From what I saw it seemed so crime-ridden that you really have to be on your guard all the time.

  Jo Nesbo

  Saws, Crime

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• Let me give you really bad news, and I'm sure people will demonize me for saying this: the rich are always gonna be with us. They will always be with us. There are rich people in Cuba. There are rich people in Venezuela. You pick the policies, and the rich are gonna figure it out. They're always gonna be rich.

  Anthony Scaramucci

  People, Giving, Cuba

  Source: gawker.com

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• There will be a winner. There will a president-elect. But there will not be a defeated people. Tomorrow, we are only one country, only one Venezuela. Tomorrow in the country there are many problems that we have to resolve. Problems do not wait.

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, People, Waiting

  "Venezuelan election officials: Chavez re-elected as president, defeats Capriles". www.cnn.com. October 7, 2012.

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• I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I've also lived in Denmark, where my father's from. I've traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Baby, New York, Father

  "Viggo Mortensen, Man of the World". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 5, 2015.

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• Venezuela has the biggest oil reserves in the world. And the biggest gas reserves in this hemisphere, the eighth in the world. Venezuela was a U.S. oil colony. All of our oil was going up to the north, and the gas was being used by the U.S. and not by us. Now we are diversifying. Our oil is helping the poor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Oil, Hemisphere, World

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In Venezuela, which doesnt have thousands of prestige universities like the U.S., people usually stay at home while attending to college. After they graduate, they move for a job or get married.

  Juan Pablo Galavis

  Jobs, Moving, Home

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• Were I to stop oil production, we`d have to import it from Iraq and from Caracas, Venezuela or from North Dakota where the environmental standards are much lower, on trains that have already proven themselves unsafe, or by more ships that are causing significant pollution in the world. It`s just really dumb.

  Jerry Brown

  Oil, Iraq, Dumb

  "All In with Chris Hayes", www.msnbc.com. December 9, 2015.

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• In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezuela. Sandpipers, plovers, and broad-winged hawks have already left for Patagonia and Panama. Bats are headed for caves in Kentucky and Tennessee. Out in the Atlantic, humpback whales pass by on their way to the Caribbean. Even now, Canada geese are honking toward us from Quebec. It is a good day for the beginnings of journeys.Every time I look at you, I think, Now I cannot die.

  Sandra Steingraber

  Good Day, Thinking, Journey

  Sandra Steingraber (2012). “Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood”, p.7, Da Capo Press

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• Venezuela and its revolution will endure under the proven leadership of Vice President Maduro.

  Sean Penn

  President, Vices, Revolution

  "Hollywood adulation of Venezuela’s socialist government proven wrong -- again" By Elizabeth Llorente, www.foxnews.com. April 24, 2017.

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• I lost a friend I was blessed to have. My thoughts are with the family of President Chavez and the people of Venezuela.

  Sean Penn

  Blessed, People, President

  "Sean Penn on Hugo Chavez's Death: 'I Lost a Friend'". www.hollywoodreporter.com. March 5, 2013.

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• I was a farm kid from the plains of South Venezuela, from a very poor family. I grew up in a palm tree house with an earthen floor.

  Hugo Chavez

  Kids, House, Tree

  Interview with Ted Koppel, abcnews.go.com. September 16, 2005.

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• Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

  Hugo Chavez

  Government, People, Limits

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• Venezuela is a democratically elected government. These people who keep protesting are sore losers.

  Oliver Stone

  Government, People, Sore Losers

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• The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq.

  Robert Mugabe

  Iran, Voice, Iraq

  "Mugabe uses UN forum to compare Blair to Mussolini" by John Hooper, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2005.

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• He's got lots of money and clearly has grandiose schemes, seeing himself as an important global player. There is a reality to it. Oil is at record prices, and he's willing to spend both in Venezuela and in the region. But the question is, how much influence is he gaining

  Michael Shifter

  Player, Reality, Oil

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• TooDamn-Funky: It's a start, ok. Been thinking bout the boyz. 'member last year my bro did that immersion thing in Venezuela? Kciker5525: Where he learned to speak Spanish??? TooDamn-Funky: Yeah! u go for 2 weeks talk nothing but Spanish u come back fluent. Kicker5535: ...???? TooDamn-Funky: Well this is like a guy immersion program! Kicker5525: So...what. I'm going 2 b fluent in GUY? TooDamn-Funky: Exactly! u will c what they talk about alone. U will c how they r with each other. U will c how they THINK!! AND WHEN IT'S DONE YOU'LL BE ABLE TO WRITE A GUY GUIDE BOOK!! Kicker5525: U r deranged.

  Kate Brian

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• How have relations with Iran and Belarus benefited Venezuela? We are interested in countries that have democracies, that respect human rights, that we have an affinity with. What affinity do we have with Iran?

  Henrique Capriles Radonski

  Country, Rights, Iran

  "Hugo Chávez rival pledges seismic shift in foreign policy" by Jonathan Watts, Virginia Lopez, www.theguardian.com. September 30, 2012.

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• Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Iran

  "McCain criticizes Obama on foreign policies". www.nytimes.com. May 20, 2008.

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• The main thing that I hate the most is ignorance, like the prejudice problems of America. I know it is worse in some other countries. But I wish I could borrow, like from Venezuela or Trinidad, the real love of color-blind people and bring it to America.

  Michael Jackson

  Country, Hate, Real

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• The infrastructure, institutions and social fabric of Venezuela are deteriorating, and people realize the Chavez government has been the problem, not the solution.

  Leopoldo Lopez

  Government, People, Fabric

  "Venezuela’s Elections: A Building Block to Something Bigger" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 5, 2010.

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• A Venezuelan dictator once decided to stop leprosy. He saw that most lepers in his country were also beggars. By the simple expedient of collecting and destroying all the beggars in Venezuela an end was put to leprosy in that country.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Country, Simple, Leprosy

  "Science of Survival". Book by L. Ron Hubbard, p. 171, 1951.

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• I love to fish offshore for billfish, and have fished all over for them from the Bahamas, St. Thomas, Venezuela, Panama, Costa Rica, Mexico to the Texas gulf. I haven't made it to Australia yet, but someday I'm going.

  George Strait

  Texas, Australia, Bahamas

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• Venezuela is another place I'd like very much to go, which is proving very difficult. I have not been there to make a show and I'd like to, very much.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Difficult, Shows, Prove

  "A 'Brutally Honest' Taste Of Anthony Bourdain's Hunger Tour At Foxwoods". Interview with Leeanne Griffin, www.courant.com. September 26, 2016.

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• What happened in Cuba, just to cut to the chase, their death rate from diabetes went down 50%, their death rate from heart attacks and stroke went down approximately 30% and all-cause mortality went down 18% while they adhered to the system. Then they opened up their pipeline again from Venezuela, and their health improvements went away.

  Jill Stein

  Heart, Cutting, Cuba

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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