Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

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• It is essential to link enterprises on the basis of objective laws of a socialist economy and legal system.

  

  Samora Machel
  • Economy
  • Laws
  • Legal

• When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Fun
  • Help
  • Gift

• Men look like pandas when they try and put make-up on.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Up
  • Men
  • Look

• Orrin Hatch was the keynote speaker at the last meeting of the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists. He sought me out because he was a fan. I was thinking he had confused me with someone else.

  

  Ted Rall
  • Thinking
  • Confused
  • Fan

• I love zoo sanctuaries.

  

  Nancy Travis
  • I Love
  • Zoo
  • Sanctuaries

• What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

  

  Carl Stokes
  • Children
  • City
  • Closing

• Unfortunately, we can never truly know if we're making the right decision. What we do know is that wherever we are, that's where the Light wants us to be. It's the best place for us to be now. And as long as we don't try to control the situation, then we won't end up in the place we shouldn't be.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Long
  • Light

• Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Way
  • Africa
  • Middle East

• I'm still raising kids myself, so I don't feel like a grandpa.

  

  Sammy Hagar Van Halen
  • Kids
  • Myself
  • Like

• I dream about doing a film about once a week.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Dream
  • Doing
  • Week

• Do the hard jobs first. The easy jobs will take care of themselves.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Care
  • Easy
  • Take Care

• Today, computers help us making the music. It's really a tool.

  

  Yael Naim
  • Music
  • Help
  • Today

• I was able to do well for myself, make a statement in the league. I had a heck of a time doing it, but at the end of the day, it's about me and my family and being comfortable and being fun.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Family
  • Fun

• I really like children to watch my movies.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Children
  • Movies
  • Watch

• Some movies to me are like vampires – they suck all of the energy out of me and I don't like that. I like to give the audience energy if I can.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Energy
  • Me
  • Audience

• A lot of the Republicans wanted exactly what Barack Obama wanted, exactly what Nancy Pelosi wanted, exactly what Harry Reid wanted, which is to raise the debt ceiling, but they wanted to be able to tell what they view as their foolish, gullible constituents back home they didn't do it.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Home
  • View
  • Debt

• Madrid is not as big as London, but it is true when you are coming from a big city like Madrid, nothing is going to surprise you, and I am very happy to move to a city like London. It is a big city, and you can do everything you want with the respect that the English people always have.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • People
  • True
  • Happy

• Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
  • Military
  • Decisions
  • Foundation

• As a lonely teenager growing up in Virginia, I fed off any pop culture that could show me different ways of being from what I saw on 'The Cosby Show' reruns or read about in an Ann M. Martin book.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • Up
  • Different
  • Book

• In the Twenties and Thirties, refrigerated railcars allowed growers to transport apples over great distances, and, thanks to cold-storage warehouses, wholesalers and retailers could keep them for long periods of time.

  

  John Seabrook
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• The ancient practice of allowing land to remain fallow for a season is now exploded, and a succession of different crops found preferable. The case is similar with regard to the understanding, which is more relieved by change of study than by total inactivity.

  

  William Benton Clulow
  • Different
  • Understanding
  • Practice

• I have buckets of sympathy for the obese, often subject to cruelty, ridicule, denunciation, and contempt.

  

  Lionel Shriver
  • Sympathy

• I write about moments, and I don't make blanket statements about anything because no one has all the answers; nobody's come up with a foolproof way to do anything when it comes to emotions.

  

  Brian McKnight
  • Up
  • Moments

• I think everybody, or the great majority of human beings, have this aspiration to become other: to live a different identity, at least for a while.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Great
  • Different
  • Live