Argentina Quotes

• The tango is really a combination of many cultures, though it eventually became the national music of Argentina.

  Yo-Yo Ma

  Culture, Combination, Tango

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• One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that's it.

  Robert Duvall

  Travel, Salt, Cooks

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• Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Travel, Women, Latin

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• That's what they do in Argentina. Have a little wine and talk. Then have some coffee and talk. Then, go back to the wine.

  Grace Jones

  Coffee, Wine, Littles

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• If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

  Evita Peron

  Each Day, Turns, Screws

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• I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina's wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day , sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go .

  Evita Peron

  Eight, Government, Hands

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• I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Office

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• 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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• Perhaps one day tired of circling the world I'll return to Argentina and settle in the Andean lakes if not indefinitely then at least for a pause while I shift from one understanding of the world to another.

  Che Guevara

  Tired, Lakes, Understanding

  Che Guevara (2013). “The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey”, Ocean Press

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• Don't Cry For Me, Argentina

  Margaret Thatcher

  Cry

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• Argentina is my country, my family, my way of expressing myself. I would trade all of my records for the World Cup trophy.

  Lionel Messi

  Country, Records, World

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• Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.

  W. E. B. Griffin

  Bird, Shooting, World

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• I think those who say that you can't tango if you are not Argentine are mistaken. Tango was an immigrant music... so it does not have a nationality. It's only passport is feeling.

  Carlos Gavito

  Music, Dance, Thinking

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• The fans in the United States, they are, well, more polite. The fans in Argentina can get, well, crazy.

  Manu Ginobili

  Crazy, Get Well, United States

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• I prefer that Argentina wins the World Cup. Messi deserves it for all he has done in football. He's my friend, I wish him the best

  Neymar

  Football, Winning, Wish

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• Long live Germany. Long live Austria. Long live Argentina. These are the countries with which I have been most closely associated and I shall not forget them. I had to obey the rules of war and my flag. I am ready.

  Adolf Eichmann

  Country, War, Long

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.

  Evo Morales

  Country, Latin, Economic Models

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• We have inhabited both the actual and the imaginary realms for a long time. But we don't live in either place the way our parents or ancestors did. Enchantment alters with age, and with the age. We know a dozen Arthurs now, all of them true. The Shire changed irrevocably even in Bilbo's lifetime. Don Quixote went riding out to Argentina and met Jorge Luis Borges there. Plus c'est la même chose, plus ça change.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Long, Parent, Age

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• And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Home, France

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• At times I think the truest image of God today is a black inner-city grandmother in the United States or a mother of the disappeared in Argentina or the women who wake up early to make tortillas in refugee camps. They all weep for their children, and in their compassionate tears arises the political action that changes the world. The mothers show us that it is the experience of touching the pain of others that is the key to change.

  Jim Wallis

  Mother, Children, Pain

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• Without Messi there isn't a team for Argentina, Messi is brilliant, different, with a strong mentality. Let's hope he doesn't change.

  Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

  Strong, Team, Messi

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• Actually, my first group was a folkloric group, an Argentine folkloric group when I was 10. By the time I was 11 or 12 I started writing songs in English. And then after a while of writing these songs in English it came to me that there was no reason for me to sing in English because I lived in Argentina and also there was something important [about Spanish], so I started writing in Spanish.

  Gustavo Santaolalla

  Song, Writing, Important

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• I'm a daughter of the middle class with a strong sense of social mobility and individualism, like the waves of immigrants, like my Spanish grandparents, who made Argentina.

  Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner

  Daughter, Strong, Class

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• I'm very comfortable in Argentina. I was raised there as a baby and stayed there until I was 11 years old, so the first decade of my life or my formative years were spent in Argentina. I stayed in tune with the food, music and language.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Baby, Years, Tunes

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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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