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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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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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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Our experience in fooling around with the genes of mice has taught us that many of the traits that interest us are not definite products of specific mutations but emergent phenomena arising from extremely complex interactions between genes, environment, and life experience.
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So, it's nice to know that you've inspired someone to do their life's work.
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The scene is dull. Tell him to put more life into his dying.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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Watching soccer is my main hobby, really. I'm no tactician or coach, but I enjoy watching the free flow of it, the different styles, and the histories behind clubs. Like Barcelona vs. Madrid - it's not just a soccer game; it's a geopolitical struggle. There are great storylines and no commercials.
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Ames parentem, si aequus est, si aliter, feras.
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There is only one principle of war and that's this. Hit the other fellow, as quickly as you can, as hard as you can, where it hurts him most, when he ain't lookin'.
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England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
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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.
