Amelita Vargas Quotes

#1. I am not a pregnant working mother wronged. #Quote by Elizabeth Vargas

#2. It was a question I asked myself each time one of these studies or field observations came to my attention, and I saw, once again, that no mention was made, even in passing, of those wandering tellers of tales, who seemed to me to be the most exquisite and precious exemplars of that people, numbering a mere handful, and who, in any event, had forged that curious emotional link between the Machiguengas and my own vocation (not to say, quite simply, my own life). #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#3. Horace was a nice little guy who looked like one of his own baboons; he turned me over to a Doctor Vargas who was a specialist in exotic biologies
the same Vargas who was on the Second Venus Expedition. He told me what had happened and I looked at the gibbons, meantime rearranging my prejudices. #Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

#4. I think in a country like mine, violence is at the root of all human relations. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#5. Don't be afraid Mr. Onaka, we need you because none of us drives.
Can you imagine anything as dumb as that? They were going to make a revolution and they didn't even know how to drive a car. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#6. I traffic in empathy. I try to be vulnerable with people so they can be vulnerable back. I've always been searching for empathy in other people. It's when I feel most not alone. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#7. Writers are the exorcists of their own demons. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#8. Kathy Dewar, my high-school English teacher, introduced me to journalism. From the moment I wrote my first article for the student paper, I convinced myself that having my name in print - writing in English, interviewing Americans - validated my presence here. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#9. I don't think there's any other issue out there that young people are more passionate, and more ahead in, than global warming. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#10. As everybody in the Andes knows, when the devil comes to work his evil on earth he sometimes takes the shape of a limping gringo stranger. And #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#11. I try to take the pain and find a way to use it in my work; I find that it makes the work deeper. #Quote by Jacob Vargas

#12. Instead of speaking of justice and injustice, freedom and oppression, classless society and class society, they talked in terms of God and the Devil. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#13. I wasn't supposed to be walking with Mark Zuckerberg. I wasn't supposed to be interviewing Romney's sons. Why was I doing it? Because I wanted to survive. I wanted to live. I wanted to earn what it means to be an American. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#14. There were many factors as to why I decided to come out as being undocumented. One of them is because I look the way that I look; I don't look like the 'stereotypical undocumented' person. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#15. He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties ... broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#16. Home is not something I should have to earn. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#17. Maintain democracy or go to dictatorship: that is what is at stake in these elections. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#18. The houses are ugly, imitations of imitations. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#19. You are not responsible for everyone's happiness. #Quote by Jacob Vargas

#20. People don't really assume that I'm Filipino. Of course, they're gonna think, 'Oh, are you some sort of Hispanic?' and you say, 'No, I'm actually not.' I get Korean or Chinese a lot. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#21. This Kingdom had a total Manpower of around 100,000 troops. They were divided like so:

40,000 in the army, led by Duke Georg Carmine.
10,000 in the navy, led by Dutchess Excel Walter.
1,000 in the air force, led by Duke Castor Vargas.
(However, one wyvern knight was said to be equivalent to 100 soldiers from the army.)

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Now, the remaining troops, numbering a little over forty thousand, belong to the Forbidden Army, but they were two further divided with that. #Quote by Dojyomaru

#22. A novel which persuades us of its truth is true however full of lies it may be #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#23. What we're doing - waving a "Keep Out!" flag at the Mexican border while holding up a Help Wanted sign a hundred yards in - is deliberate. Spending billions building fences and walls, locking people up like livestock, deporting people to keep the people we don't want out, tearing families apart, breaking spirits - all of that serves a purpose. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#24. They had forgotten the abuses, the murders, the corruption, the spying, the isolation, the fear: horror had become myth. Everybody had jobs and there wasn't so much crime. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#25. Citizenship to me is more than a piece of paper. Citizenship is also about character. I am an American. We're just waiting for our country to recognize it. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#26. A writer is not always conscious of the influences he has received. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#27. Touching a penis? Yes. That's in the contract."
"I didn't mean-"
"You did. That's what all the straight guys are worried about. First, do they have to touch a penis? Second, any butt stuff? Because they'd really prefer to not do the butt stuff. #Quote by Emory Vargas

#28. I have no control over what people call me. The only thing I have control over is my work, and that's really all I can be judged on. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#29. Culture is about humanizing people. You look at the African-American civil rights movement, you look at the LGBT rights movement - the culture changed before the politics did. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#30. In many ways, I think I've always overcompensated. I was always almost too careful, because I knew if anybody ever found any way to doubt my work, then they'd start picking my life apart, too. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#31. Almost seventy years later I remember clearly how the magic of translating the words in books into images enriched my life, breaking the barriers of time and space ... #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa

#32. When people call me illegal, calling me illegal says more about you than it does about me. #Quote by Jose Antonio Vargas

#33. It's beautiful, as long as you concentrate on the landscape and the birds, because everything man-made there is ugly. #Quote by Mario Vargas-Llosa