Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.Mario Vargas Llosa
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I have a lot of breast cancer history on my mother's side of the family.
Wanda Sykes -
If God wants to take my left arm, that's OK, as long as I can walk and play with my kids. I'm a lot improved. I was worse than this after the accident.
Manute Bol -
The famous convention of 1787 met in Philadelphia to define the additional powers needed to enable Congress to do its job effectively. Instead, the convention proposed a brand new national government.
Edmund Morgan -
Art is nature speeded up and God slowed down.
Malcolm de Chazal -
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan.
Pankaj Mishra -
You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
Harry Browne
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Even though 'Vicky Donor' was a huge success, I have had one or two films which have not done well, but that's all right.
Yami Gautam -
Yoko Ono never deserved any of the hate she got. Paul McCartney and John Lennon weren't getting along.
Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy -
For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
Harold Evans -
I always do something that I've never done before.
Lars von Trier -
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Harold Feinstein -
My family is my biggest critic. Since they come from a non-filmi background, they give me an audience's point of view. They have been very supportive of me.
Randeep Hooda
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I think I felt pretty alienated, being bigger, being mixed race, being of lower socioeconomic standing.
Paloma Elsesser -
There's more to life than just the things that can be explained by encyclopedias and facts. Facts alone are not adequate.
Madeleine L'Engle -
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
We should reward people, not ridicule them, for thinking the impossible.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Now it happened that Kanga had felt rather motherly that morning, and Wanting to Count Things — like Roo's vests, and how many pieces of soap there were left, and the two clean spots in Tigger's feeder.
A. A. Milne -
Sultan Aladdin… had few illusions about his own people: amiable, well-favoured, courteous, they loved rest better than industry… their function was to remind the toiling Chinese, Indians and British of the ultimate vanity of labour.
Anthony Burgess
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Being a figure skater myself and knowing what it took for my parents to get up at five in the morning to drive me to the rink before school and then drive me to practice after school - it's a huge commitment for any family.
Allison Janney -
There's something missing in all this new new media craziness, and that is something that uses celebrity news as a way to get into a really serious analysis of our culture.
Jessica Williams -
Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you.’
Erich Fromm -
And as you said, for me, it was important to test those guys – my people. And for me also to get up to speed to see if this was running accordingly to what we are imagining. And this was good because it was the first time we earned money, and this also proves to the team the project is feasible.
Stephan Winkelmann -
With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
Jason Kander -
The novels that have fascinated me most are the ones that have reached me less through the channels of the intellect or reason than bewitched me.
Mario Vargas Llosa