Mario Benedetti Quotes

I think the only positive thing that came from Uruguay's dictatorship was the spread of Montevideo natives around the world, and I continued writing about them from my various places of exile.

Mario Benedetti

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: uruguayan
  • Birth: September 14, 1920 - May 17, 2009

Topics

PositiveWritingWorldThinkPlaces

In a divided government, you can't just say, 'It's my way or the highway.'

Jeb Bush

GovernmentYouSayWayDividedJust

I don't know why - I have a ton of books: five full cabinets of them.

Michael Pena

KnowWhyFiveBooksFullThem

I've been religiously reading the O. Henry Prize anthologies every year since college, when I first began trying to write stories. Many of the authors whose work I cherish the most were people I first learned about through The O. Henry Prize Stories - and then I'd go search for their books.

Molly Antopol

WorkPeopleCollegeReadingSearch

After trying Atkins and doing Nutrisystem a few times, now I'm just focused on maintaining a healthy lifestyle rather than dieting.

Miranda Lambert

DietDoingTryingHealthyLifestyle

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Louis C. K.

SchoolMeHigh SchoolThoughtGrades

Making a strong first impression is as important as ever, especially when meeting face-to-face.

Joseph Abboud

StrongMeetingImportantFirstEver

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

Dick Dale

PeopleMusiciansPlay

The usual cause of evil in the world is that at any given time half the people in the world are awake.

Dean Rusk

TimePeopleEvilWorldHalfAwake

If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing.

Peter Berg

LifeHappinessYourselfMindEnergy

In the free/libre software movement, we develop software that respects users' freedom, so we and you can escape from software that doesn't.

Richard Stallman

FreedomYouEscapeSoftwareMovement

I'm not going to put my music up on some little corner of the Internet or give it away for free. What does that do? That's just giving up. I'm not giving up, ever.

No I.D.

MusicFreeInternetGivingGiving Up

Soul music is pain - you can hear the slaves, the beatin' and the hurtin'.

Link Wray

MusicSoulPainYouSlavesHear

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