Top 517 Quotes & Sayings by Chilean Authors - Page 3

How can you repress Rachel McAdams? She's so full of life.

Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all.

We can all get better. We all have to think about how to improve ourselves, no matter how good we are.

I seek out hard things. I tried to imitate other singers. It was a self-discovery for me to move from imitating others to me growing to sing in my own voice. The opera was difficult and it felt like a personal conquest.

Everybody has losses - it's unavoidable in life. Sharing our pain is very healing.

I've learnt so much from playing football: I love football, and that's what I do. I enjoy myself, and I'm just trying to be happy.

First I was going to be a football player, then after that try to study medicine or engineering. But it was very difficult to do medicine, so I did engineering.

Fashion is totally political, the icon of a political system.

Lionel Messi is very difficult to contain.

The use of music in 'Gloria' is not cynical.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

I get up every morning early, when the sky is red, and write for 10 hours.

Whenever I'm terrified of anything, I jump to it.

Technical players make the game easy. They have a view of the pitch different from other players. They put the last pass for the strikers. They are the players that lose two or three balls in a year.

I've been auditioning since I was 20, working as a waiter, getting theater gigs, doing the 'Law and Order's.

As a fast player, I want to receive the ball facing the opposition goal, which gives me more vision.

I think that if a player wants to be at the very top, he needs to win the Champions League and league titles. That's what makes the great players truly great.

I never regret my decisions.

Chilean society is conservative, but U.S. society is puritanical.

From journalism I learned to write under pressure, to work with deadlines, to have limited space and time, to conduct and interview, to find information, to research, and above all, to use language as efficiently as possible and to remember always that there is a reader out there.

I still think I'm playing back home in the street in my town with my mates. That's why I love the game, and mostly, I don't pay too much attention to social media or look at stuff that's out there.

If you asked me what my dream would be - obviously, 'NCIS' is a dream to me - I'd like to be on a period show.

I am like the rain: I go where I'm needed.

English is not my language.

I have become an American citizen, and I love this country. I think that this country has incredible potential for goodness, an incredible possibility for doing the wrong thing, too.

'Gloria' is a film about a fifty eight-year-old woman who is quite alone in life; however, she is quite optimistic. Nobody has much time for her, and so she regularly goes to these single adults' parties where she is looking for someone. By the end of the film, she doesn't necessarily find love, but she does find something else.

First, as an owner of the club, you must choose a style of football. After that, you must find the managers that will work with the young players in your team in that style. After that, you must put a manager in the squad with the same mentality.

Maybe I am a prophet. I really hope one day there will come Confucius, Muhammad, Buddha and Christ to see me. And we will sit at a table, taking tea and eating some brownies.

In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.

Today's girls are tomorrow's women - and leaders.

Death is astute as a master. It's a process that teaches people aspects of themselves.

I do explore the city if I have the time for it, but normally, I would rather stay relaxed at home. London can be a stressful place because it's crowded and it's a big city.

From a personal perspective, I try never to go back to a club where I have already coached.

I write to understand my circumstances, to sort out the confusion of reality, to exorcise my demons. But most of all, I write because I love it!

Cancer runs in our family. I lost my grandmother to it. There's a saying that you meet people and instantly know them. My grandmother and I had that. The first time my heart was broken was when my grandmother passed away. I was twenty-one.

There's something about using the cinematic device as a tool to connect with dimensions of the world that you don't know too well, you're not too familiar with. It's like a creating a bridge, or a spaceship to travel to the unknown.

I'm not obsessed by football.

If we broaden our gaze, it will be more interesting, more beautiful.

We have to be very conscious of the fact that beneath every illness is a prohibition. A prohibition that comes from a superstition.

In order to make a film, you have to operate on many different levels, making all these different forms of expression converse, and so I just followed that intuition.

For some players, it is a dream to play at Madrid.

For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

My sister and I were born in Chile and raised in the States, and my little brothers were born in the States and raised in Chile after my parents moved back in 1995.

When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.

When I made the transition from player to coach, I evaluated myself and saw that I needed to improve my personality. I would fight with players - literally. I was 35, and you can't be like that; you have young players to guide. You have to transmit calm.

I own two or three pairs of jeans and a bunch of T-shirts.

The Premier league is better with Mourinho.

I definitely believe that art is the best way to produce social change.

I would be happy to go back to Spain at the right moment.

Birds born in cages think that flying is a disease.

I'm not saying transgender characters should be only interpreted by transgender actors - because that would be as rigid as saying transgender actors cannot play cisgender roles, and that's not the idea.

I've seen 'Hamlet' many times, and Hamlet, he was just a hideous neurotic; he never changes. He doubts - all the way to the end, all the way until when he dies, he doubts.

We got HBO when I was 7. My parents would be in bed, 'Children of the Corn' would be on at midnight, and I'd watch it on mute.

Latin American culture is conservative, and the rural areas are tremendously conservative. I don't believe that's just a Chilean thing.

There has been too much silliness and cliche when looking at older people: I think that hides a fear of death that we have as a society. We are obsessed with youth and denying death.

I love being at home, having friends over.

My wife is 37 years younger than me. I don't feel the difference.

To be the coach of Real Madrid is an honour, and every coach has pride in that. However, one is also subjected to a wide range of critiques - some just, but others not. But when the criticism deteriorates into insults, which has happened many times, I don't appreciate that.

I play in a way that means taking risks. The problem is that, from 300 passes, you make one mistake.