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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I'd go on the train to castings, changing from my school uniform on the train. I carried on like that for a few years, getting jobs in bits and pieces.
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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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Five days in Nairobi slums changes you.
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In 1957, I was studying the Pleiades star cluster at Harvard University's radio observatory. On one occasion, we saw an added feature in the data. It turned out to be an amateur radio enthusiast near the observatory, but at the time, I thought we had detected clear evidence of another civilisation.
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I've always imagined that one day the path of your life would unroll at your feet and carry you away from us. As it should, as it must. But I am glad that day is not today.
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I was really good friends with Matthew Ashman, the guitarist in Bow Wow Wow. He died, unfortunately. He was one of my best friends during my sort of punk period.
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My mother-in-law's so fat that when she passes her handbag from hand to hand she throws it.
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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.
