Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

When I was growing up, the Spanish-speaking world was Balkanized. We were isolated. We didn't know what was happening in cultural terms in Ecuador, Colombia and Chile. Nowadays, this has changed a lot - fortunately for writers and readers. There is much more integration.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: peruvian
  • Birth: March 28, 1936

Topics

Growing UpWorldGrowingKnowMore

If people want to find things, they find them themselves.

Jimmy Page

PeopleFindWantThingsThemselves

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Jim McKay

ChangeMeOpinionsFilmWorking

There are a lot of things that Slack gives you that email doesn't when you think about internal use. Switching to Slack from email for internal communication gives you a lot more transparency.

Stewart Butterfield

CommunicationThinkYouTransparency

When I walk out of a movie that's actually good, I write emails to anybody I know who was involved with it.

Robert Ben Garant

GoodWalkKnowWriteOutInvolved

One problem with politics is that it is a zero sum game, i.e. politicians argue how to cut the pie smaller and smaller, by reshuffling pieces of the pie. I think this is destructive. Instead, we should be creating a bigger pie, i.e. funding the science that is the source of all our prosperity. Science is not a zero sum game.

Michio Kaku

SciencePoliticsGameThinkProblem

Great stories and acting always win the day. If the story behind the scares is dramatic and the filmmaking is great, it works. If those things aren't great and the scares are secondary, it doesn't.

Jason Blum

GreatDayWinStoryActingAlways

I exaggerate all our selves, our beings. I make fun of everything: of our life and what we are. But I don't tell jokes, really. I just exaggerate life, and it comes out funny.

Don Rickles

LifeFunnyFunEverythingOutJokes

In 18th-century Scotland, the main event was the Jacobite rebellion under Bonnie Prince Charlie, so that seems like a nice dramatic backdrop.

Diana Gabaldon

NiceRebellionDramaticEventSeems

My whole life is about winning. I don't lose often. I almost never lose.

Donald Trump

LifeWinningLoseNeverWholeAbout

I'm constantly not on the right side of history. I sympathize with the soldiers in the enemy's camp. For example in WWII, we know the Nazis and the Japanese were wrong. But I sympathize with the individual story of a soldier who was drafted into that.

Chloe Zhao

HistoryStoryWrongEnemyKnowSide

We got to protect Medicaid.

Cory Gardner

ProtectGotMedicaid

I think it's important to have goals and to have dreams, but you also have to live in the moment of what the reality is.

Ari Graynor

GoalsDreamsLiveMomentThinkYou

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