Quotes About Chile

Uno de mis primeros entrevistados fue Roberto Bolaño. Bolaño, que era escritor y chileno, vivía desde hacía mucho tiempo en Blanes, un pueblo costero situado en la frontera entre Barcelona y Gerona, tenía cuarenta y siete años, un buen número de libros a sus espaldas y ese aire inconfundible de buhonero hippie que aqueja a tantos latinoamericanos de su generación exiliados en Europa.

Chile could work as a double for L.A.; it's very production-friendly and there's terrific talent down there.

In Chile, they had penas, where the community would come together to sing and plan how they were going to overthrow the government. There's a real hopefulness in that community style of organizing.

My mother had her dresses made. In those days in Chile, the early '70s, people had dressmakers make their things. With the leftovers, my sister and I always had a matching outfit. She had an outfit, we had the mini version. That was the very late '60s, early '70s way to dress your kids.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Then you'll cry and go on livin'. But girl, you be borrowing trouble 'fore there be trouble to borrow. You done be lettin' that fear take over your heart again. What happened to your trust, chile? What happened to your trust?" Rose

Konu k?y?mlard?. ?ili'de tüfekleri kullananlar uzmand?lar. Körü körüne ölümlerde "Kimse ya da hiçbir ?ey ölmüyormu? gibiydi,/topra?a dü?en ta?,suya kavu?an suydu sanki." ?air bir ceza ister. K?rm?z? bir hat çizer. Seçti?i yandaki halkt?r, öte yandakiler dü?manlar?.

I was born in ancient times, at the end of the world, in a patriarchal Catholic and conservative family. No wonder that by age five I was a raging feminist - although the term had not reached Chile yet, so nobody knew what the heck was wrong with me.

Teach me, chile, and I shall Learn. Take me, chile, and I shall Escape. Focus my eyes, chile, and I shall See. Consume more chiles. I feel no pain, for the chile is my teacher. I feel no pain, for the chile takes me beyond myself. I feel no pain, for the chile gives me sight. —Transcendental Capsaicinophilic Society, "Litany Against Pain

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.

Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.

People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pushed for women in all areas.

Willibald Mattern, a German emigre in Santiago de Chile, had spun a powerful tale of Nazi resurgence. His book, UFOs: Unbekanntes Flugobjekt? Letzte Geheimwaffe des Dritten Reiches (UFOs: Unidentified flying object? Last secret weapon of the Third Reich) (1974), described how thousands of Nazi UFOs will one day fly forth from the South Pole to restore German world power against a scenario of increasing racial chaos and economic catastrophe in a final act of deliverance.

Este acercamiento entusiasmó tanto a la Unión Soviética, que en el mismo año de 1964 instaló en Chile una residencia legal de la KGB[4] en Santiago.

San Martín, desolado, comprendió que ningún apoyo podría recibir de su patria donde, por el contrario, era tildado de "aventurero", "ladrón", "loco" y otras lindezas por el estilo. Se lo acusaba de que se ocupaba más de los destinos de países extraños que de los avatares del propio. Como si la caída de Chile y especialmente del Perú no fueran condiciones indispensables para nuestra independencia.

público chileno que tanto ama la ridiculización de sus personajes populares.