The Best Quotes about Argentina

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Last Updated on: 9th August 2021, 11:05 pm

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France – Clive Tyldesley

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more. – Dee Dee Myers

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

If you’re a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you’re treated as royalty. And in the United States, we’re endlessly fascinated by the family.- Douglas Brinkley

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

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

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.- Gabriela Sabatini

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

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.- Juan Manuel Fangio

Argentina won’t be at Euro 2000 because they’re from South America.- Kevin Keegan

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?- Kevin Keegan

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

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.- Lionel Messi

My favorite scene that I ever filmed was singing “Don’t Cry For Me Argentina” from the balcony of the Casa Rosada in Argentina [where the real Eva Peron once stood] during Evita. That was amazing. SO real and surreal. Bizarre.- Madonna Ciccone

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it.- Robert Duvall

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it. -Robert Duvall

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves. -Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.- W. E. B. Griffin

Argentina won’t be at Euro 2000 because they’re from South America. -Kevin Keegan

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina. -Bitsie Tulloch

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.- Gabriela Sabatini

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

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

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

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

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

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world .-Diego Maradona

As far as being a ‘player’s player,’ you’ve only got to go to Nashville or Argentina and you can forget about it. The world is full of amazing guitar players, and you know it, and I know it…it’s a humbling experience… -Mark Knopfler

I always thought I wanted to play professionally, and I always knew that to do that I’d have to make a lot of sacrifices. I made sacrifices by leaving Argentina, leaving my family to start a new life. I changed my friends, my people. Everything. But everything I did, I did for football, to achieve my dream. -Lionel Messi

Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina .-Margaret Thatcher

Publicly, I’ve never talked about Argentina.- Jose Mujica

Everyone should learn to tango in Argentina before they die.- Ian McKeever

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France. -Clive Tyldesley

The Peruvian faces are completely different from that faces in Argentina and in Brazil. -Walter Salles

Cliff swallows come back to Capistrano Mid-March. It takes them 3 weeks to fly 7,000 miles from Goya, Argentina. -Diana Hollingsworth Gessler

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more. -Dee Dee Myers

It seems that Argentina is incapable of looking critically at its tragic military adventure in the Falklands. -Pepe Eliaschev

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp? -Kevin Keegan

Argentina wouldn’t exist if not for self-determination, and this can’t be valid for some but not for others. -Pepe Eliaschev

Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who’ll play a central role at the worldcup-Thomas Muller

Potentially he could be. He scored the goal four years ago in France against Argentina that was extraordinary. -Alan Hansen

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

In Argentina at various tournaments, it’s great. Every day it’s full, everybody’s crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis. -Gabriela Sabatini

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

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn’t very good, but my pronunciation isn’t terrible. -Moby

My grandfather was a very mystical guy who travelled from Argentina to Chile, across the mountains with a donkey, carrying the Torah. -Alejandro Jodorowsky

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody. -Lionel Messi

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking. -Juan Manuel Fangio

When I was in high school, I was lucky enough to be an exchange student to a small town in Argentina called Goya. -Patrick Wang

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

When Harvard University opened its doors in 1636, there were already well-established universities in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, and Peru. -Oscar Arias

I grab coins and tees in my travels, but I usually mark my ball with a coin from Argentina, either a peso or a 10-centavo piece. -Angel Cabrera

Many writers from the suburbs of history, such as Ireland and Argentina, produced more original work than their counterparts in the United States; they still seem to. -Pankaj Mishra

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

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 Kirchner

As we returned to Argentina, I started seriously to work towards a doctoral degree under the direction of Professor Stoppani, the Professor of Biochemistry at the Medical School. -Cesar Milstein

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child’s foot. -Blake Mycoskie

If you’re a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you’re treated as royalty. And in the United States, we’re endlessly fascinated by the family. -Douglas Brinkley

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

I don’t spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I’ve ever been is Argentina. -Ian McKeever

Imagine how much capital a country like Argentina might attract – if instead of defaulting seriatim and affecting a pose of anger toward creditors, it borrowed responsibly and honored its obligations. -Paul Singer

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

We arrived in Argentina with a lot of injured players, including our goalkeeper. Also we were unlucky to be drawn in the same group as the two tournament favourites Italy and Argentina. -Michel Patini

I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It’s in my blood. -J. D. Pardo

While Argentina, Brazil, and Chile – what in textbooks used to be called the ABC countries – seem settled into democratic politics and free market economics, the Andean countries are in disarray. -Elliott Abrams

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world. -Diego Maradona

Surviving the first round is never my aim. Ideally, I’d be in one group with Brazil, Argentina and Germany. Then I’d have lost two rivals after the first round. That’s how I think. Idealisitic. -Johan Cruijff

Argentina and Burma. I have been to most of the countries in the world, but not those two. I want to shoot doves in Argentina. Burma, of course, because no one has really been there. -Jeremy Clarkson

Once upon a time there were the Pampas in Argentina, that people could treat as “empty lands” and where they could run away from their problems from problem-ridden homes. That eventuality is no longer available. -Zygmunt Bauman

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

I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He’s the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport. -Nacho Figueras

I remember one director in Argentina said to me, ‘You are not going to have any opportunity to be a leading lady because of your height.’ And I didn’t care. I don’t have a complex. -Elena Roger

There are too many coming from different countries. When we started, foreign players were in the minority. All the best players from Spain, France, Brazil, Argentina are going to England. And Ireland is bound to suffer. -Kevin Kilbane

I speak Swedish, it’s my first language. Of course, growing up with Latin American parents from Argentina, I also have some other influences from other cultures. But Sweden is where I feel the most at home. -Jose Gonzalez

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic. -Stephen Kinzer

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

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

I was raised in Argentina until I was 11 and now I go back there a lot, at least twice a year. It’s a country where I feel very comfortable and it represents an important period in my life. -Viggo Mortensen

Back in 1962, when I had by accident become the supervisor of Roberto Celis in Argentina, it occurred to me that antibody diversity might arise from the joining by disulphide bridges of a variety of small polypeptides in combinatorial patterns. -Cesar Milstein

You could think about Vietnam and at some point in time about Nigeria. And then you head to South America: Argentina, Columbia, Peru. Probably not all of them will have an F1 race, but they are definitely considering events. -Martin Sorrell

I first went to the Chubut valley, the colony that runs about 800km across the width of Argentina, in 2000. My uncle had been there tracing family and came back saying I had to go. So a year later I did. -Matthew Rhys

Cumbia is a beautiful rhythm. It’s a music that has indigenous, African and European components. It’s played in all of America – from Argentina to the U.S. It has mutated and been nurtured by everyone who comes across it. -Juan Campodonico

If you were a child and every time your relatives had a few drinks, they’d be running after you with scary faces and big hands to pull you back to sing Don’t Cry For Me Argentina, you wouldn’t like singing either. -Roisin Murphy

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

I have had people come to the site from all over the world. The US and Canada predominantly, but also Brazil and South Africa and Greece and Indonesia and Hong Kong and Ireland and Argentina and Spain and Israel and Australia. -Sophie Blackall

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

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

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

I always support Argentina. I watched a lot of the European Championships but wasn’t supporting one team. I knew some players in a few of the teams and was just seeing how they played. It was nice for Ronaldo to win with Portugal. -Usain Bolt

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

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

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

People always ask me, when I had the idea for TOMS, did it change my life? As romantic and noble as it is, no it did not change my life. But when I went to Argentina on that first shoe-drop, it did change my life. -Blake Mycoskie

I played for Santos at 16, and we had an excellent team, so it helped a lot. And then I played for Brazil at the Maracana against Argentina. So I get more experience. This was one year before the World Cup, and it made a lot of difference. -Pele

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

People often ask me what I consider my goal to be at TOMS. The truth is that it’s changed over the years. When we first began, the goal was to create a for-profit company to help the children that I met in a small village in Argentina. -Blake Mycoskie

One of the big problems in America’s economic polarization and shrinkage is that pensions can’t be paid. So there are going to be defaults on pensions here, just like Europeans are insisting in rolling back pensions. You can look at Greece and Argentina as the future of America. -Michael Hudson

I and others like me believe Timerman was chosen by President Kirshner, first as Argentina’s U.N. ambassador and then as foreign minister, among other reasons because he does not hide his Jewishness and his relations with the Jewish community and, therefore, can be a ‘fig leaf’ for her policy. -Pepe Eliaschev

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

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

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

One thing I like about Argentina, they only cook with salt; that’s it.-Robert Duvall

Latins are tenderly enthusiastic. In Brazil they throw flowers at you. In Argentina they throw themselves.-Marlene Dietrich

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

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

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

I have an office in Argentina, I go there every day, so I work.-Gabriela Sabatini

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

Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina-Margaret Thatcher

Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.-W. E. B. Griffin

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

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

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

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

And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France-Clive Tyldesley

Evo Morales

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

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

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

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

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

Between 1831 and 1891, US armed forces – usually the Marines – invaded Mexico, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Panama, Colombia, Nicaragua, Uruguay, Brazil, Haiti, Argentina, and Chile a total of thirty-one times, a fact not many of us are informed about in school. The Marines intermittently occupied Nicaragua form 1909 to 1933, Mexico from 1914 to 1919, and Panama from 1903 to 1914. To ‘restore order’ the Marines occupied Haiti from 1915 to 1934, killing over two thousand Haitians who resisted ‘pacification.’-Michael Parenti

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

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

I was born in New York but as a baby moved to Venezuela and Argentina. I’ve also lived in Denmark, where my father’s from. I’ve traveled a lot, and having that sort of background probably increased the chance that I was going to remain curious as an adult about people who are different.-Viggo Mortensen

When I was 11, I moved to the United States with my two brothers and my mom. We moved to northern New York, up near the Canadian border, from Argentina, and there was nobody there that spoke Spanish, and because there was no internet at the time, not even cable TV yet, I lost the connection with my childhood friends and the culture I had been brought up with for my first decade completely.-Viggo Mortensen

Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama’s past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver’s highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.-Sena Jeter Naslund

If you’re a Kennedy and you go to Italy or you go to Argentina, you’re treated as royalty. And in the United States, we’re endlessly fascinated by the family.-Douglas Brinkley

I repeat what I always say: I want the best for Argentina in every way. I never try to make trouble for anybody.-Lionel Messi

So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern…Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.-George Orwell

My uncle is from Argentina, so I grew up hearing Spanish. My Spanish isn’t very good, but my pronunciation isn’t terrible.-Moby

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

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.-Dee Dee Myers

In Argentina at various tournaments, it’s great. Every day it’s full, everybody’s crazy about tennis, everybody wants to play tennis.-Gabriela Sabatini

Taking on all at once Germany, Japan, and Italy – diverse enemies all – did not require the weeding out of all the fascists and their supporters in Mexico, Argentina, Eastern Europe, and the Arab world. Instead, those in jackboots and armbands worldwide quietly stowed all their emblems away as organized fascism died on the vine once the roots were torn out in Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo. So too will the terrorists, once their sanctuaries and capital shrivel up – as is happening as we speak.-Victor Davis Hanson

When I first came out of Argentina to Europe, the flight took 36 hours. Now it takes 12 hours, and the world is still shrinking.-Juan Manuel Fangio

I took a dozen of our top managers to Argentina, to the windswept mountains of the real Patagonia, for a walkabout. In the course of roaming around those wild lands, we asked ourselves why we were in business and what kind of business we wanted Patagonia to be. A billion-dollar company? Okay, but not if it meant we had to make products we couldn’t be proud of. And we discussed what we could do to help stem the environmental harm we caused as a company. We talked about the values we had in common, and the shared culture that had brought everyone to Patagonia, Inc., and not another company.-Yvon Chouinard

What beefsteak is to Argentina, flamenco to Spain, cool reserve and self-control in all situations to an Englishman, what vodka is to a Russian and beer to a Bavarian, what money is to a Swiss, that is outdoor-life to an Australian. It is a noble mania, better than vodka, better than cool reserve, better than money.-George Mikes

Some places, because of their spiritual history, are noted to be locations where people will often experience an open heaven. In fact, there are places where the heavens are open more than in other places. Most of you are familiar with previous moves of God in places such as Toronto (The Toronto Blessing), the meetings in Pensacola, and Argentina, just to name a few. Just like in Jacob’s day, today, there are certain places where heaven is open, geographical locations where you are more likely to have an encounter with God.-Todd Bentley

Stoichkov is a great person and an exceptional player… Only if we had him at Napoli… can you imagine the Stoichkov-Maradona attacking duo?-Diego Maradona

Argentina and Brasil are both extremely good south american teams who’ll play a central role at the worldcup.-Thomas Muller

My goal was to go back to Argentina, and give them all-all the shoes-away. Not just to give them away, but to place them on each child’s foot.-Blake Mycoskie

Latin America is all moving to the left, from Venezuela to Argentina with rare exceptions, but there’s a good left and a bad left.-Noam Chomsky

I’m dealing with Mexico, I’m dealing with Argentina. We were dealing in this case with Mike Flynn. All this information gets put into The Washington Post and The New York Times, and I’m saying, what’s going to happen when I’m dealing on the Middle East? We’ve got to stop it. That’s why it’s a criminal penalty.-Donald Trump

It is very difficult to enter a single currency zone having fairly weak economic parameters and maintain a favourable state of the economy, not to mention positive growth rates. We have witnessed it not only in Europe, but for example in Argentina (nearly 10 years ago or more), when they tied the national currency to the dollar and later they did not know what to do about it.-Vladimir Putin

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

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

To be asked to do the pairing menus by Alamos Wineries in Argentina [was the most interesting opportunity]. There are so many chefs out there, and so if you were to say, “The dude who used to host Man V. Food is doing pairing for Jim Beam,” you’d say, “Okay, that’s kind of conceivable.” If you’re talking about the dude from Man V. Food is doing pairings for fine wine, then I think people might not necessarily anticipate that.-Adam Richman

I think the most surreal moment for me having been a kid who was on unemployment, was on food stamps – I’m not kidding you, to utter these words aloud is so surreal to me – but to say, “I had to give up my Super Bowl tickets for my all-expense paid research trip to Argentina’s wine country,” it was like, who’s life is this? It was splendid, and the nice thing was that they renewed my contract for another year.-Adam Richman

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

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

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

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

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

Argentina won’t be at Euro 2000 because they’re from South America.-Kevin Keegan

At the Argentina game, how would you have guessed that Darren Anderton would have gone off with cramp?-Kevin Keegan

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

I’ve lived in a preindustrial (rural Argentina) as well as an industrial world. You experience a different sense of time in a community that works the land. Human relationships aren’t professionalized or contractualized; family and friends take primacy. Life has much more continuity than discontinuity. There’s a great deal of poetry in everyday life.-Shoshana Zuboff

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

Messi is not really from Barca’s ranks. What they did was sign the most talented kid in the whole of Argentina! Messi was already Messi when he arrived at Barcelona – they simply polished him. Cristiano Ronaldo is already too old to learn and change the way he is. When he was 13, someone should have sent him home when he didn’t behave properly.-Javier Clemente

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

I speak Spanish because I grew up overseas in Spain, Uruguay and Argentina.-Bitsie Tulloch

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world.-Diego Maradona

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