Buenos Aires Quotes

• On July 18, we will mark the 12th anniversary of the senseless loss of 85 lives in the bombing of the Jewish Cultural Center in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

  Tom Lantos

  Anniversary, Loss, July

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• Brazil was beastly but Buenos Aires the best. Not Tiffany's, but almost.

  Truman Capote

  Brazil, Tiffany's, Beastly

  Truman Capote (2012). “Breakfast at Tiffany's”, p.110, Vintage

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• The two cities I've found very hard to leave in my life were New York and Buenos Aires.

  JJ Feild

  New York, Cities, Two

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• I learned an invaluable lesson from a kid in Argentina when we were playing Buenos Aires in 2002. I came out of the hotel and this 16-year-old-boy asked me to sign his copy of my Six Wives of Henry VIII album. As I was signing it I asked him 'what does a 16 year-old like about this old music?' and he looked at me, quite hurt, and said, 'it might be old to you, Mr Wakeman, but I only heard it for the first time last week. When you hear something for the first time, it's new.' I've never forgotten that.

  Rick Wakeman

  Hurt, Kids, Boys

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• Buenos Aires is my favorite city. I think it's fantastic - but is a troubled, sort of psychologically troubled city.

  John Gimlette

  Thinking, Cities, My Favorite

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.

  Ralph Martin

  Asking, Praying, Pope

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos Aires. It was known. Also her books are known.

  Pope Francis

  Book, Philosopher, John Paul Ii

  Source: www.catholicnewsagency.com

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• In my second year of Harvard Divinity School, where I was studying to be a minister like my father, I met a guy named Robert Cox, who had been the editor of the Buenos Aires Herald during the Dirty War in Argentina. Bob used to print the names of those who had been disappeared the day before, above the fold in his newspaper. It was a kind of an awakening to me to see what great journalism can and should do.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Father, Dirty

  Interview with David Barsamian, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. July 14, 2011.

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• I sustained an injury by singing with the flu during the second performance of Andrea Chenier in Buenos Aires. I was very sick, with chills and sweats, but against my better judgement I let them talk me into singing. Of course I gave the performance everything I had and my voice was hurt. It was scary at first, but fortunately there was no permanent damage. I just had to be patient and wait for the voice to return. It took six weeks of physical recuperation and it took time to recover my confidence as well.

  Ben Heppner

  Hurt, Sweat, Voice

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• I had a library of maybe 1,000 books in my room in Buenos Aires. I did have the sense that everything there was organised in the right way. You'll probably think I needed serious psychiatric treatment, but there were times when I would not buy a book because I knew it wouldn't fit one of the categories into which I had divided the library.

  Alberto Manguel

  Book, Thinking, Library

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• Rising sea levels will result in tens to hundreds of millions more people flooded each year with a warming of 3 or 4°C. There will be serious risks and increasing pressures for coastal protection in South East Asia (Bangladesh and Vietnam), small islands in the Caribbean and the Pacific, and large coastal cities, such as Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Mumbai, Calcutta, Karachi, Buenos Aires, St. Petersburg, New York, Miami and London.

  Nicholas Stern

  New York, Islands, Years

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• Sunday is the day I connect with Buenos Aires. I speak to or text my mother every day, but on Sunday I phone everyone.

  Elena Roger

  Mother, Sunday, Phones

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• Sometimes Buenos Aires is not so safe. You are scared to have someone behind you at night.

  Elena Roger

  Night, Safe, Behind You

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• News at Work is a vivid, inside look at the collision of print journalism and electronic media. Based on close access to the leading news organizations in Buenos Aires, Boczkowski documents how contemporary journalism is caught in the grip of emulation; this spiral of imitation exacerbated further by global news media and their intensifying homogenization. The portrait of this transformation of the news is both fascinating and deeply worrying, and is guaranteed to provoke debate.

  Walter W. Powell

  Media, Organization, Worry

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• Carlitos is amazing. He does what he wants with the Arabs. He tells them "I want to go to Buenos Aires" and they say "No, Carlitos, stay here now, we'll give you more money". And then he gets more money!

  Diego Maradona

  Football, Giving, Want

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• Early this morning, 1 January 2021, three minutes after midnight, the last human being to be born on earth was killed in a pub brawl in a suburb of Buenos Aires, aged twenty-five years, two months and twelve days.

  P. D. James

  Morning, Years, Two

  P. D. James (2010). “The Children of Men”, p.12, Vintage

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