Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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You'll be fooled if you only get your hip-hop from the mainstream, you know. The things that move people are not just found in the mainstream cultures. And when we talk about hip-hop in general, hip-hop's basically preoccupied with life.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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As a writer, one is obliged to release her words, to let them live in the world on their own.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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Write for yourself. That's it. And write every day.
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Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds.
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I sense that by writing both books and television, I've become better at each.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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When people hear good music, it makes them homesick for something they never had, and never will have.
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A low voter turnout is an indication of fewer people going to the polls.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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When I was 20, my mother died and I went off the rails a little bit. I kinda had my slightly dark period.
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I saw that the war could not be prevented. The time had passed.
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I think when people see Pluto revealed by New Horizons, its satellite system, its complex surface, its atmosphere, I think they'll have a hard time saying 'That's not a planet' because it obviously will be, and I think most people are already coming to that opinion anyway, but I think that's really going to drive it home viscerally.
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Irony won't save you from anything; humour doesn't do anything at all. You can look at life ironically for years, maybe decades; there are people who seem to go through most of their lives seeing the funny side, but in the end, life always breaks your heart. Doesn't matter how brave you are, or how reserved, or how much you've developed a sense of humour, you still end up with your heart broken. That's when you stop laughing.
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It's not that, you know, when a relationship doesn't work and there are issues, you have to somehow work it out if there are children involved.
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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
