Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

Mario Vargas Llosa

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• There's a perception out there that the U.K. has become unfriendly to immigrants. Even if that isn't true, the very fact that that is the perception will make people not even want to come.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • People
  • True
  • Perception

• So smoking is the perfect way to commit suicide without actually dying. I smoke because it's bad, it's really simple.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Bad
  • Perfect
  • Simple

• Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • World
  • Friends
  • War

• Before the 20th century, the ulcer was not a respectable disease. Doctors would say, 'You're under a lot of stress.' Nineteenth-century Europe and America had all these crazy health spas and quack treatments.

  

  Barry Marshall
  • America
  • Health
  • Crazy

• Men are sort of doofuses about sunscreen, and for the most part, women are more inclined to take better care of themselves, but a reminder is always good for everyone.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I've been fascinated by Machiavelli since I was very young. I've always felt that he had a bad rap from history, and that he was actually a person quite unlike what we now think of as Machiavellian. He was a republican. He disliked totalitarian government.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Bad
  • History
  • Think

• Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Life
  • Today
  • Understanding

• Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Person
  • Idea
  • Suffer

• Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

  

  Valentina Matviyenko
  • Different
  • United States
  • Russia

• It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • Down
  • Head
  • Idiots

• The aging process is totally minimizing. Life in general is pretty minimizing because you have a lot of big ideas, and you have to battle the mistaken delusions and instability that come with youth.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Battle

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• One of these days, I'd like to put together a revue of all my music, which would probably turn into a marathon. There's a couple of hit songs from almost every phase of my career. At the same time, visually, if you don't handle it properly, it could be a cacophony of craziness, because there's just so many different kinds of music.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• Most actors will tell you that it takes a while to figure out what you want to be because we just want to do everything we see on TV and don't know that 'actor' is a job yet.

  

  Rachelle Lefevre
  • Job
  • Want
  • Know

• There are not a lot of places for an actor to explore what it's like to be a woman in her 60s. There aren't any films about it and there very few TV series about it.

  

  Sally Field
  • Woman
  • Actor
  • Explore

• I was a commercial roofer before this, until about age thirty. I will not work others under me and do not want to work under others.

  

  Padgett Powell
  • Work
  • Age
  • Me

• When we were in D.C. my daddy used to cut his hair with a bowl. Crucial. If you're African, Haitan, Jamaican or even more poor than the people in the project, you'll know about that.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Know
  • Hair

• My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Different
  • Love
  • Want

• We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, 'tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Inform'd what is the true Way to Happiness.

  

  Mary Astell
  • True
  • Happy
  • Knowledge

• While the men of the steel industry were going through blood and gas in defense of their rights and their homes and their families, elsewhere on the far-flung C.I.O. front the hosts of labor were advancing and intelligent and permanent progress was being made.

  

  John L. Lewis
  • Men
  • Progress
  • Intelligent

• Rock roll is not obscure, it's really easy to understand. So is my painting.

  

  Grace Slick Starship
  • Rock
  • Painting
  • Understand

• My function is, as objectively and accurately as I can, to present reality to people out there, and doing that as quickly as we do is quite difficult enough, thank you.

  

  Ted Koppel
  • People
  • Reality
  • Present

• If this person slept with your girlfriend, she would never be attractive to you again.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • She
  • Girlfriend

• Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

  

  Mario Vargas Llosa