Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Food
  • Countries

• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • You
  • Arts
  • Awards

• President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Government
  • Promise

• Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.

  

  Irving Berlin
  • Life
  • Side
  • East

• I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Morning
  • Like
  • Idea

• I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Community
  • Problems

• The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Great
  • War
  • China

• Hollywood's built on insecurity. People are trying to prove things. And I probably have that. I probably do. Probably guilty of it, in a way.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Guilty

• I made nothing happen very slowly.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Nothing
  • Very
  • Happen

• It was always sort of my dream to make handbags and I wanted a handbag that was very sharp, very structured, very tailored... I wanted a bag you could put all of your things in it, you can open it, you could close it, you could hid all your tricks, but it's not all lumpy.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Bag

• I come from an alcoholic Irish background - I know where I was going! But I met my wife and started to practise Buddhism, which is a levelling experience for me, and there hasn't been a day I've missed in 40 years. I apply it to everything - to my work and relationships. I try to be a compassionate person.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Day

• I had to jump on the tractor and do my chores. I would have just killed to be in town, to be able to Rollerblade hand-in-hand with somebody I had a crush on. I just wanted to get off the farm, to find my outlet.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Hand
  • Find
  • Jump

• Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.

  

  Irving Kirsch
  • Really
  • Active
  • Percent

• I really feel that New York City is the greatest city in the world.

  

  Gabriel Macht
  • World
  • City
  • New York

• Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.

  

  Rachel Roy
  • Man
  • Yourself
  • Advocate

• Aviation is proof that given, the will, we have the capacity to achieve the impossible.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • Impossible
  • Achieve
  • Will

• But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined.

  

  Irene Dunne
  • Friends
  • Words
  • Learn

• How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.

  

  Maimonides
  • Power
  • Same
  • Distance

• I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Know
  • Like
  • Jump

• Stand-up is an amazing art form, I think, because it's all about you having complete control of the situation, but absolutely none.

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Situation

• Some of my happiest childhood memories are going to the movies with my dad and seeing whatever was out that week. In 1977, when I was 7, it was 'Star Wars.' That was a life-changer.

  

  David Benioff
  • Life
  • Dad
  • Star

• Mental toughness is spartanism with qualities of sacrifice, self-denial, dedication. It is fearlessness, and it is love.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Sacrifice
  • Dedication
  • Qualities

• I love stories, and my life is principally concentrated on stories, but not with a pretense of scientific precision.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa
  • Life