Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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I have been a film buff all my life and believe that the finest cinema is fully the equal of the best novels.
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I was always very focused on how people dressed.
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I'm not that lazy, but I don't need that much money. I lead a fairly simple life.
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I haven't always been confident. I actually suffered with low self-esteem growing up. Eventually, I got to a point where I was just like, 'OK, this is taking too much energy.' After that, I started accepting myself for who I was, and I was like, whoever is not going to accept it, they weren't really meant to be in my life in that way.
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I have breakups that I can credit to every song. In my twenties, I picked people who would create that dysfunction and drama, so I could draw upon it.
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I believe that being successful means having a balance of success stories across the many areas of your life. You can't truly be considered successful in your business life if your home life is in shambles.
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I hate parameters. They immediately alienate a bunch of people.
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Canada was my whole world and my whole reality, and now I meet people who've never been there, and it's like, 'You've never been to my whole world?'
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The thing you notice here after America is how refreshingly ordinary people look because they haven't had their chin wrapped around the back of their ears.
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You must learn to take life less seriously and to laugh.
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I guess I was a mom so late in life, my daughter was the greatest thing since sliced bread.
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You're trying to put yourself in that moment and trying to prepare yourself, to have a 'memory before the game. I don't know if you'd call it visualising or dreaming, but I've always done it, my whole life.
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But I'm trying to play into this role as much as possible and be a nicer person in real life.
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I hate jet lag, but I love, love, love, love traveling - to meet new people, to try different foods because I'm a big foodie. I love food, even though people think models don't eat. We do eat.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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I was watching TV and saw people with masks, weapons, and grenades. I thought, Is that really possible? Could we be here yet again? And go into civil war one more time?
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It's like people you see sometimes, and you can't imagine what it would be like to be that person, whether it's somebody in a wheelchair or somebody who can't talk. Only, I know that I'm that person to other people, maybe to every single person in that whole auditorium.
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I'm like a big 10-year-old when I'm on stage. I just go up there and do whatever I think is cool at the moment.
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I took charge of the government as per my commitment to serving the country and the people, and not out of any greed for yet another post.
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Pointing fingers, trying to catch each other in scandal does not bring honor to this House.
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With the more endowed nations constrained by their own higher technological capacity for self-destruction as well as by self interest, war may have become a luxury that only the poor peoples of this world can afford.
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It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
