Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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Know why you believe, understand what you believe, and possess a reason for the faith that is in you.
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Don't lie - when you are 105 years of age - on your deathbed, thinking, 'I should have done a few things!' I would like to think I tried as much as I could.
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I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
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There aren't many athletes who follow their hearts. They choose to go somewhere to win more and earn more money. They're like gypsies.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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You're never going to learn everything.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I think my role, I want to have a presence both behind the scenes and in front of the camera. So I can't say on one particular thing, so I'll just name them all. I'll be the jack of all trades and hopefully decent at one of them.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.
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When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
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Syria is geographically and politically in the middle of the Middle East.
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True friends stab you in the front.
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Privacy is relational. It depends on the audience. You don't want your employer to know you're job hunting. You don't spill all about your love life to your mom or your kids. You don't tell trade secrets to your rivals.
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I always put myself second - I like to make others happy.
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I'm not the most charismatic, maybe emotional, fun-packed individual on the golf course; I get that.
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I'm a terrible cook, but I make very good lobster salad.
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When I started out, at the CBC in Toronto, there was so little work. It was a different world from what it is now. Now we're blessed with so much production in so many Canadian cities.
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In books, as in life, there are no second chances. On second thought: it's the next work, still to be written, that offers the second chance.
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There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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I passed on the cocaine,Said bye-bye to my methadone.Put down the bottle for one more day.Backing off of my Tobacco Jones.Still I feel like a hopeless junkie,Like a man who can't say no.I look back and there's that monkey;Rascal won't let go.
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El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.
