Mario Vargas Llosa Quotes

Today, everybody is more or less conscious of the total failure of the Cuban revolution to produce wealth, to produce a better standard of living for the Cubans. With the exception of small radical parties, Latin Americans know that it's a brutal dictatorship and the longest in Latin American history.

Mario Vargas Llosa

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FailureTodayHistorySmallBetter

I picked up 'On Moral Fiction' in the bookstore and looked up myself in the index, but I didn't read it through. I try not to read things that depress me.

John Updike

MyselfMeMoralTryUpFiction

It hasn't been a conscious thing, like, 'I don't want to listen to a bunch of dudes,' but I genuinely like music by women better.

Soccer Mommy

WomenMusicBetterWantListenBeen

More brands are waking up to their social responsibility and doing good work through cause marketing campaigns. Yet too many still go about it the wrong way. I mean 'wrong' in two senses. Firstly, they are marketing ineffectively, and secondly, as a consequence their positive social impact is not maximized.

Simon Mainwaring

PositiveWorkGoodResponsibility

Nothing is eternally stable, and even Kansas isn't really in Kansas anymore. The earth is in a constant state of flux.

Simon Winchester

EarthNothingKansasEvenState

After the series 'Roc' ended, every role offer I got was for the wise-cracking, ne'er-do-well brother or boyfriend, and I could have made a very good career doing those characters.

Rocky Carroll

GoodBrotherDoingCareerRoleMade

We have to make sure that women's issues are an essential element on the agendas of all heads of state, all governments.

Michelle Bachelet

WomenSureIssuesStateEssential

I am an agnostic, even though I respect and am interested in all religions. If there's something I believe in, it's a mysterious energy; the one that fills the oceans during tides, the one that unites nature and beings.

Monica Bellucci

NatureRespectI AmBelieveEnergy

What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind.

William Shakespeare

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For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

Peabo Bryson

MeStrongSenseJustSpirituality

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

Selma Blair

BeautyEyesTimePeopleMeShort

You don't have to choose between doing good and doing well. It's a false choice, today more than ever.

Tim Cook

GoodTodayDoingYouChooseChoice

I don't follow politics; it doesn't interest me. So why should I vote?

Mario Balotelli

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