Mario Quotes

When people talk about my business, my life, I'm really private. Maybe someone thinks I'm arrogant or something, but it's just me.

They say that abandonment is a wound that never heals. I say only that an abandoned child never forgets.

Democracy is not meant to be efficient, it is meant to be fair.

Those two principles: We're supposed to love one another and we're supposed to work together to make the experience better. That's all the religion you need, really, to make a success of this planet.

The real influence on my work was reality, that of my country and Latin America in general.

Everyone makes pesto in a food processor. But the texture is better with a mortar and pestle, and it's just as fast.

Look at cookbooks with your kids and ask them what sounds good.

If you are killed because you are a writer, that's the maximum expression of respect, you know.

I have no plans, and no plans to plan.

My first two books did nada. I ended up paying the publishers.

Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

Science is still only a candle glimmering in a great pitch-dark cavern.

You can't disobey the rules every time you disapprove. However, when you're considering something that constitutes an extreme abridgement of your rights, conscience is the court of last resort.

All gamblers are paranoid, though they call it superstition.

Do you believe a man can truly love a woman and constantly betray her?Never mind physically but betray her in his mind,in the very "poetry of his soul".Well,it's not easy but men do it all the time.

Falling in love is great but being in love is a disaster

There is no government in Europe where ministers go through that kind of confirmation process, which in fact is modeled on the way the U.S. cabinet members are confirmed.

In some cases, the casting directors have casted blindly and have not looked into my ethnic background

Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies.

When I'm able to see the ice ahead of time when I get the puck, I'm able to make some pretty good plays.

I've gone through back surgery a couple times, and of course, my radiation treatments for six weeks got me to the point where I was not able to play at the level that I was accustomed to.

Photography is not difficult - as long as you have something to say.

It is not a government's obligation to provide services, but to see that they are provided.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Michigan is my antidote to Manhattan. This is where I come to relax.

In growing up in Seattle, I don't know a single family that didn't barbecue or cook on the weekends and make its own kind of simple, pared-down, what I call Pacific Northwest cooking.

It surprises me how much children like me, you know? If they look at me as an example, I have a big responsibility.

Sometimes you have to bring back only the steering wheel so the car owner will know that you're giving it all you have.

The American Dream is ownership … a house, a car, a vacation home and, even better, your own business

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

If someone throws a banana at me in the street, I will go to prison because I will kill him.

You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

‎"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.

Good architecture lets nature in.

There's three things men always talk about - women, sports, and cars.

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em... then beat 'em.

Mancini is lucky. He has an owner [Sheikh Mansour] who speaks little and asks only: "What do you need?"

To play in atmospheres that are intense is when I play my best football.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

I was very young and lived with my grandparents in a villa with white walls in the Calle Ocharan, in Miraflores.

There are many things behind a good novel, but in particular there is a lot of work - a lot of patience, a lot of stubbornness, and a critical spirit.

In Los Angeles, individuality is very big, because people live in secluded bubbles. People don't walk around. They're very insular, and that allows for people to be whatever they want.

The university is a vast public utility which turns out future workers in today's vineyard, the military-industrial complex.

The price of seeking to force our beliefs on others is that someday they might force their beliefs on us.

What I didn't do was pick one thing and keep saying it over and over again, so I could have gotten credit for it.

I think social media really is a great tool. It fascinates me when I tweet something and right away you get a response almost immediately.

I never personally name anyone. I am not comfortable rating other drivers.