Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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I'm a machine man, and I head a machine.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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I love being a father. It's one of my big jobs is just being a parent. It's one of my favorite things I do.
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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.
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I enjoy personal injury cases. I've tried quite a few of those. And, frankly, any kind of litigation that is trouble-shooting, whether it's equities, suits and injunctions, or whatever.
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I don't watch any horror films. I get scared very easily.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I just know whenever I fall off His path, things get really hard. So I just stick with what God tells me to do.
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Without the faculty of forgetting, our past would weigh so heavily on our present that we should not have the strength to confront another moment, still less to live through it. Life would be bearable only to frivolous natures, those in fact who do not remember.
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When you build a building, you finish a building. You don't finish a garden; you start it, and then it carries on with its life. So my analogy was really to say that we composers or some of us should think of ourselves as people who start processes rather than finish them. And there might be surprises.
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I never run away from the responsibility. I'm used to it.
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I'm sentimental to a fault.
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I think that literature is something that embraces a much larger experience than politics. It's an expression of what is life, of what are all the dimensions of life. But politics is one among others.
