Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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I will keep working hard!
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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A lot of the former Idols were voting for me, and that makes me feel really good.
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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Life is not easy in politics.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them.
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I try and groom myself, be it through fitness or dance.
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A lot of producers now are people who stay in their office and never go to the set. I don't know how you can be the advocate of the movie if you're not there in it every day.
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To be filled with God is a great thing, to be filled with the fullness of God is still greater; to be filled with all the fullness of God is greatest of all.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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For freedom's battle, once begun,Bequeath'd by bleeding sire to son,Though baffled oft, is ever won.
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I suppose my life has always been about pleasing people, making sure they're all right, doing the right thing. Then, suddenly, you have to face up to what you want and be honest about it.
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It's not that I don't want to do commercial films, but if my part is just to look pretty, I'm not up for it. I'd do a role that expresses something. It's not that I don't want to look good, but give me a part where I have scope to perform.
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Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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A politician's goal is always to manipulate public debate. I think there are some politicians with higher goals. But all of them get corrupted by power.
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Good literature always ends up showing those who read it... the inevitable limitation of all power to fulfill human aspirations and desires.
