Argentina Quotes - Page 2

• 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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• Argentina is really in a different category because they butchered all their Indian or indigenous people in the war of the desert in 1850s. Which sets them aside from their neighbors in a macabre way.

  John Gimlette

  War, People, Different

  Source: www.identitytheory.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 was, I am and I always will be a drug addict. A person who gets involved in drugs has to fight it everyday.

  Diego Maradona

  Fighting, Drug, Everyday

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• I want to concentrate on winning things with Barcelona and Argentina. Then if people want to say nice things about me when I have retired, great. Right now, I need to concentrate on being part of a team - not just on me.

  Lionel Messi

  Team, Nice, Winning

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• I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.

  Fabian Perez

  Father, Character, Gambling

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• Charles Darwin, who had witnessed the
  atrocities perpetrated against Argentina’s native
  Indians by Juan Manuel de Rosas, had predicted
  that “the country will be in the hands of white
  Gaucho savages instead of copper-coloured Indians.
  The former being a little superior in education,
  as they are inferior in every moral virtue.

  Jon Lee Anderson

  Country, Hands, White

  Jon Lee Anderson (2010). “Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life”, p.6, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was born in Argentina, June 13, 1943. I brought up my parents very well, so they let me come to America to study at Princeton University.

  Emilio Ambasz

  America, June, Princeton University

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• If I had my way, any man guilty of golf would be barred from any public office in the United States and the families of the breed would be shipped off to the white slave corrals of Argentina.

  H. L. Mencken

  Golf, Men, White

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• Unfortunately, we don't have the option of marriage in our country. We could go to Britain or Spain or Argentina and do something symbolic, but that's not what I want. I want to have the rights of anybody else in my home country. I don't want to be a second-class citizen

  Dick Cheney

  Country, Home, Gay

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• I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Horse, Kids, Years

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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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• When I finished high school, I was 16, and in Argentina you have to choose a career right after high school. There is no such thing as a liberal arts education.

  Cesar Pelli

  Art, School, Careers

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• A horse perceives eye contact as provocative, as if it and its status in the herd are not being respected. If it cannot avoid eye contact, it will react in a different way, by rebelling for example. In dressage you don't get anywhere by not showing respect, however superior your species might be. Any animal trainer can tell you that. In the mountains in Argentina there's a wild horse which will jump off the nearest precipice if any human tries to ride it.

  Jo Nesbo

  Horse, Eye, Animal

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Oslo Trilogy: The Redbreast, Nemesis and The Devil's Star”, p.164, Random House

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• Everybody in Argentina can remember the hand of God in the England match in the 1986 World Cup. Now, in my country, the hand of God has brought us an Argentinian pope.

  Diego Maradona

  Country, Hands, England

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• Argentina is a marvelous place. Argentines are great bankers of information. They import information; if someone sneezes in Milan or in New York, they clean their faces very fast there.

  Emilio Ambasz

  New York, Bankers, Information

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• It's not that difficult to play well and win titles in a team like Barcelona, but it's in the national side where you see a player's true class. That was the case with figures like Pele, Diego Maradona and Zinedine Zidane. With Spain, Iniesta has shown that he is among the best players of all time and that's why I rate him higher than Messi or Ronaldo. Even though the latter two have incredible scoring records for their clubs, they still haven't won anything with Argentina or Portugal respectively.

  Boris Becker

  Team, Winning, Player

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• Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in...well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication.

  Patrick Symmes

  Weekend, Wife, Southern

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• The Indians and Chinese have become brilliant chess professionals. They get on a plane and play all over the world. This has led to dramatic pressure on incomes. Nowadays, the best chess player in Argentina can no longer make a living playing chess.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Player, Chinese, Income

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.

  Bitsie Tulloch

  Spain, Speak, Grew Up

  "Bitsie Tulloch Talks GRIMM, Her Biggest Acting Challenges This Season, Which Creatures She Finds the Creepiest and What’s Next for Her Character". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 16, 2012.

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• I think that even though The German Doctor (Wakolda) is placed in a historical context , it is a very intimate story. The film has been extremely well received around the world. It keeps on going around, opening in different markets, and connecting with the audience. In Argentina it was seen by over 450, 000 spectators, which is way more than anything we could have imagined.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Thinking, Doctors, Historical

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I was reading books about the Nazi presence not only in Argentina, but all over Latin America, and time and after time this information would come up.

  Lucia Puenzo

  Latin, Book, Reading

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The first lady of Uganda is a devoted evangelical and beloved by the faith community. At an evangelical conference in Argentina, one minister said, "Mama Janet has given us the keys to Africa." She has done that by creating a nation that has embraced a Dominionist form of Christianity that believes that Christians have a God-given right to rule the world.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Christian, Believe, Creating

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• Argentina is a very interesting culture because unlike Europe and the US, they did not abandon rock and roll music, they did not turn their backs on it. It's an important part of their culture. So guitar music is an important part of their culture. So me being into rock music, I get respect working there, which wasn't happening in Europe or in the US.

  Gordon Raphael

  Rocks, Guitar Music, Europe

  Source: www.indieberlin.de

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• The pope [Francis] takes his vocabulary from his pastoral experience, not from the rhetorical tool kit of liberation theology, with its Marxist yammering about "center" and "periphery." The "peripheries," for Francis, are all those who have fallen through the cracks of late-modernity and post-modernity - in his native Argentina, because of colossal corruption, political and financial.

  George Weigel

  Vocabulary, Political, Cracks

  Source: eppc.org

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