Chileans Quotes

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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.

    Source: therumpus.net
  • 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.

    Moving   Sea   Names  
  • 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.

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

    Reality   Use   Way  
    Interview with Saul Landau, 1971.
  • 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.

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

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

    Statement, November 08, 1998.
  • 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.

  • 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.

    Italian   Blood   America  
    Source: www.identitytheory.com
  • Bonsai won the Chilean Critics Award for best novel of the year in 2006and it's easy to understand why.

    Awards   Years   Easy  
  • 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.

    Culture   Way   Emotion  
    Source: blogs.indiewire.com
  • I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people.

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

    Jobs   Pride   Years  
  • 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, top woman in a macho world". Interview with Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2006.
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