Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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I remember reading the cruelest, most awful thing about my hair online. A person speculated about who I was as a person and even read into my personal life based solely off my hairstyle. He or she said I must be lazy because I have short hair. It was just devastating.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Most of us, if we're not careful, tend to dehumanize the enemy.
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It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.
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It's been tough for me being away from the game.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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I've been very fortunate in my collaborators throughout my career.
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Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I was very close to my mother, and her death, which left a gaping hole in my life, has been very difficult for me and my father in a lot of ways.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.
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I've been training quite hard.
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We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.
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Investigation is a subtle process, requiring patience and fine analytical ability, as well as a skill in cultivating one's sources. When torture is condoned, these rare talented people leave the service, having been outstripped by less gifted colleagues with their quick-fix methods, and the service itself degenerates into a playground for sadists.
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In an age in which we can project an image and score that image based on immediate Facebook and Twitter feedback, thus making a video game of life and a false-reality composed of lies, what gets lost is a joyful obsession with the work we create from the purest of motives, a sheer joy in the act of creation itself that causes us to lose ourselves in something else, and in a way die to ourselves over the absolute love of a thing we are breathing into life.
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Computers are very powerful tools, but in the simulated world of the computer, everything has to be calculated.
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If you look at old football pictures, the jerseys were hanging, the sleeves were dangling, but now everything is tucked and tailored.
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Reading changed dreams into life and life into dreams.
