Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• Take a very small amount of money, your throwaway money, treat it as if it's already gone, you've mentally set it on fire, and put it in some distribution of a few truly legit layer 1 blockchains.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • Money
  • Small
  • Fire

• Justice is revenge.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • Justice
  • Revenge

• In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.

  

  Illeana Douglas
  • School
  • High
  • Goal

• I'm a storyteller. I love to tell stories about brands. I love to tell stories, period. I like painting pictures through the words, and that's what I do.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Words
  • Like
  • Painting

• I'm not slim. I'm a curvy girl: I've got thighs and a bum. I don't mind baring the fact that I've got a bit of cellulite because everybody has. I find it off-putting when everybody on telly is the same size or looks the same build. For me, it's important for people to watch someone normal.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Important
  • Mind

• If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Together
  • Girl
  • Courage

• Parsi theater was known for melodrama.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Theater
  • Known
  • Melodrama

• How you looked was not important. It was what you did and how you did it. Decide to do it and then do it the best way you can.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Important
  • Way
  • Best

• There wasn't so many ISSUES like there are today. It was a simpler time.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Time
  • Today
  • Like

• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • Switzerland

• If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • People
  • Want
  • Risk

• I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Kind
  • Years

• To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • World
  • Great
  • True

• It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Me
  • Kind
  • Human

• Inflation is not always the main problem, or indeed a problem at all. Sometimes, though rarely, deflation is a more serious threat, and we need to shelve many of the orthodoxies we have held so dear.

  

  Gavyn Davies
  • Problem
  • Sometimes
  • Serious

• My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Done
  • House
  • Know

• You can't be happy in a place like London when you don't have money.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Money
  • Happy
  • Be Happy

• My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Energy
  • Singing
  • Living

• It was a lonely thing. There was no way to be sure if it meant the same thing to both of you. He’d forgotten that part of making love, how you couldn’t assume that intent was as joined as bodies were.

  

  Pat Cadigan
  • Lonely

• It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

  

  Frederick Douglass
  • Light
  • Fire
  • Storm

• Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Enemy
  • Destroy
  • Strategy

• Supposedly, summer vacation happens because that's when the kids are home from school, although having the kids home from school is no vacation. And supposedly the kids are home from school because of some vestigial throwback to our agricultural past.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Home
  • Kids

• Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.

  

  Andrew Rosenthal
  • Song
  • King

• I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez