Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
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I always played to win.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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Running back was always my favorite position.
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
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One hazard of our job on TV is people are always checking us out and noting every pound we've gained or haven't quite lost.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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When people ask me what I miss most about the game, it's being in the locker room and getting to know the guys. Back in those days, we had roommates. We had to talk basketball and that was a great way to understand the game itself and form those lasting relationships.
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We have learned how to do a lot of things. We must try to relearn why.
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Texas Republican political leaders take perverse pride in how deeply they have cut our state's education budget. Thousands of teachers have been pulled from classrooms, schools have closed and valuable programs have been canceled. In many places, districts are forced to choose between prekindergarten programs and English, algebra and art.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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Happy are those who dare courageously to defend what they love.
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I am one of the few actresses who isn't recognized by the way she looks. I'm recognized by the way I talk.
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I hope you will understand that architecture has nothing to do with the inventions of forms. It is not a playground for children, young or old. Architecture is the real battleground of the spirit.
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Always take out your watch when a child asks you the time.
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We're being shelled and bombed and assassinated and killed. Our homes are being destroyed, our children traumatized. Our livelihoods, our institutions, our infrastructure totally demolished.
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I believe that the only courage anybody ever needs is the courage to follow your own dreams.
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They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.
