Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won't be so quiet as I wanted.
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My hunger is always there.
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Sometimes I feel like I have a dozen different people inside of me. I've always been that way, and I've always written stuff down.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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I'm just collecting gold presents, which is more fun, actually, than buying gold.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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Humor is always more interesting when it comes from someone who's had more than, like, five experiences.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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Our plan is what the Scottish government had with the U.K. It's an agreement to consult over the independence of Catalonia. And we will not abandon this plan until the end.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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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.
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Men have no confidence in an officer who doesn't know his own mind.
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When the poet died his cat was put to death and mummified.
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It is interesting to note that scientific men all over the world are awakening to the fact that the flesh of animals as food is not a pure nutriment, but is mixed with poisonous substances, excrementitious in character, which are the natural results of animal life.
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Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I thought that, when I came to New York, that I would have a very life here for three months or three and a half months. And my impression is that it won't be so quiet as I wanted.
