Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.
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It was never the goal to be a solo performer. It was just something that made the most sense at the time.
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Being well-dressed is a wonderful thing, but I don't think it should be life threatening.
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Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.
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I'm the type of person who likes to enjoy everything that I do, take advantage of every opportunity in life.
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Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
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I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really getting is just me.
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What I learned from boxing and what everyone can take in real life is to follow directions, follow order. Don't give nobody a hard time.
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As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.
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The first thousand days of a baby's life are likely to determine the rest of her life - whether she grows up to be healthy or not, both physically and emotionally.
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Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.
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I've had so many hot, cheesy, corny loves of music in my life. I had a very intense Billy Joel period. So once you've really Joeled it up - there's some good periods of Joel; it's not all hot cheese. But I can't judge anyone else for their cheese. I've deep-sea dived in the Gouda.
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The biggest things in life are not materials.
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No matter what went down, music was always going to be a part of my life. What ultimately happened is that, over a period of time, I just kind of looked around and when like, 'Wow! I'm actually making a living doing this.'
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The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.
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In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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Of course, I should have done what doctors said and walked for miles every day and not eaten great amounts of butter. But then, life is life, and if we all did what they said we should do, it would be a different world.
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Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
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There have to be moments when you glimpse something decent, something life-affirming even in the most twisted character. That's where the real art lies. See, I always suspect characters who are painted as lovely, decent human beings. I would always question where the darkness lies.
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My life isn't interesting enough for anyone to hack my phone.
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My biggest advice for girls – and this is something that I wish I could have known when I was younger – is to have thick skin. It's something that you definitely develop when you get older, but when I first started, I was so obsessed with pleasing everybody. I wanted everybody to like me and to like my songs.
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The church has given me balance.
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I will always think about uplifting the lives of the poor because I know what they feel. I have not heard about poverty; I have not read about poverty: I have experienced poverty.
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I don't want to finish my life not being alive. I think that is the saddest thing that can happen to a person. I want to keep living to the end.
