Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
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I suffered from 'No one will ever fancy me!' syndrome, well into my teens. Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not.
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I can't predict exactly what the TV channel of the future is, but we think more and more time spent on TV is going to be around web content and web video.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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If the lyrics are something new, then maybe I want to give it a more traditional form, or the other way around, but not have all one or the other.
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'Blue Plate Special' is the autobiography of my first half-century of life, with food as the subject.
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Voice acting is very different from live-action. You only have one tool to convey emotion. You can't sell a line with a look. It's all about your vocal instrument.
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The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in American culture as a whole, especially in the major elite institutions of society.
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A gang is the same as a wolf pack; gang members do not use their energies in friendship with one another, for they do not know what friendship is. If they are united, it is by the common bond of a desire to attack their world.
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Good policy makes good politics and what I've done has been good politics.
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I think Sharon is anti-Israeli because it's in the interest of Israel to understand the problems of the other side.
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Nafai knew the rule: when a man acts like a child, he's boyish, and everyone's delighted; when a boy acts the same way, he's childish, and everyone tells him to be a man.
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Ingiustissimo Amor, perché sì raroCorrispondenti fai nostri desiri?Onde, perfido, avvien che t'è sì caroIl discorde voler ch’in duo cor miri?
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Instead of buying into the global agenda, which is using food as just industrial stuff, we would say we view food as biological, a living thing, that belongs in smaller communities.
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When you see two writers named on a movie, one of them did some drafts and got the boot.
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To all of our viewers out there - expect the unexpected.
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If we are wondering why only 19 percent of the American people feel that the Congress is in tune with their priorities, the cuts in Amtrak is one blatant reason why.
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I wouldn't trade this experience for the world, and I hope I get to be a part of 'The Voice' for as long as I can.
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Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest. Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion.
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To see my story turned into a movie is mind-blowing.
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You have a right to say what you believe, and I have a right.
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The joy I feel is immense; it burns inside me as though I have swallowed a piece of the sun.
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No matter how ephemeral it is, a novel is something, while despair is nothing.
