Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.Mario Vargas Llosa
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Feminism is rooted in racial rights and gender rights, and all of those things intersect, and to say that that's not something you can stand behind - it confuses me. I think it's a really great word.
Mackenzie Davis -
When I look at myself, I'd like not to have hair on the top of the ceiling.
Kara DioGuardi -
It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
Rahul Gandhi -
I know I'm profane. And outspoken.
Frances McDormand -
For skincare, I'm a Clean and Clear girl. Especially with the humidity in Georgia, Clean and Clear has been pretty good to me with all of the makeup we have to wear. My skin really responds to that product. I'm also a big fan of Kiehl's under-eye avocado cream.
Candice Accola -
I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
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Before the scene, before the paragraph, even before the sentence, comes the word. Individual words and phrases are the building blocks of fiction, the genes that generate everything else. Use the right words, and your fiction can blossom. The French have a phrase for it - le mot juste - the exact right word in the exact right position.
Nancy Kress -
I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
Mal Peet -
At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.
Gail Simmons -
Although my mother didn't necessarily approve of teenage girls wearing heels, she made an exception for me when I was 14 because she didn't want me to be self-conscious about my height - or to slouch.
L'Wren Scott -
Every child, woman and man has a right to enough nutritious food for an active and healthy life.
Ban Ki-moon -
Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
Adam McKay
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First of all, just to get Diner made would have been an achievement in that I got a chance to direct.
Barry Levinson -
I'm a 24-hour tweet machine, I'm a 24-hour blogger. When there's no pressure on me, I can talk and write and lecture with the best of them. But put a deadline on me and I start getting writer's block.
Questlove -
Although I have lived in Manhattan since 1992, for the better part of two decades I have remained in blissful oblivion of all matters sportif.
Hamish Bowles -
You just put yourself into your work, and you can do anything you want, depending on how hard you want to work for it.
T. J. Miller -
Our experience at Teach For America has been that the more people understand educational inequity, the more they want to do something about it.
Wendy Kopp -
A hat should be taken off when you greet a lady and left off for the rest of your life. Nothing looks more stupid than a hat.
P. J. O'Rourke
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My mother was killed in a plane crash, so I hate travelling in planes. Death is so unexpected. I would actually rather stay at home and not go anywhere.
Linda McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.
F. R. Leavis -
In a small lab, if you make a mistake, you can go in the next day and fix it. But here, when you are committed to spending a hundred thousand or a million dollars, you can't fix it later. You need to have a system of checks and balances internally. In particle physics, that's just part of the structure.
Barry Barish -
There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
Richard Adams -
Journalism is a way of voicing opinion, of participating in the political, social, or cultural debate.
Mario Vargas Llosa