Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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Well, I - you know, the scripture says that God works by faith. And you have to have faith. You have to have trust in God so that God can work.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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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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My great-grandchildren will not be able to enjoy the Gulf Coast of Louisiana the way I have.
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None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.
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A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it.
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Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Eventually, I decided that if I was going to really write a novel, I couldn't do it in New York City while holding down a job. You need a constant money source to live in New York City unless you're independently wealthy, which I'm not.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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It was a terrible day for baseball, it was a worse day for Congress.
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Public and employer opinion often defeat society's best interests with a prejudice against middle-aged women.
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The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.
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I would love to work with someone like Kevin Spacey as he could pass on what I need to learn.
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There are over 7,000 different types of proteins in typical eukaryotic cells; the total number depends on the cell class and function.
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My kids are the most inspiring thing that pushes me. It used to be because they were born, and I had to take care of them. Now it's because my son raps, and he's better than me. So now I gotta keep up with him, you know what I'm saying?
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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
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When I was a kid I never learned to play. I actually got in bands through watching people play and copying them.
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I tend to think the world is a bit of a miserable place, so anyone who can add to people's optimistic, cheerful side is doing a good job, which is what I hope I'm doing.
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I liked the idea that my character was not gonna be the typical dumb guy that I play, typically. I also loved the fact that it was dealing with kind of adult-extended adolescence, which I think is always interesting - a bunch of people that don't wanna grow up.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
