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 believe that any art communicates what you're in the mood to receive.
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Éramos yo y el mar. Y el mar estaba solo y solo yo. Uno de los dos faltaba.
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Remove the predators, and the whole ecosystem begins to crash like a house of cards. As the sharks disappear, the predator-prey balance dramatically shifts, and the health of our oceans declines.
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I've often thought - even though it's hard to give him even more credit than he has had - that Andy Warhol must have started a lot of 15 minutes of fame.
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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.
