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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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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I was not born a size 2. I'm not skinny, period. I'm not willing to sleep with the director or step on somebody else's neck to get the job.
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It is the vocation of each person to become unique.
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All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.
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Before I took the veil, I was ornamented for the ceremony, and was clothed in a rich dress belonging to the Convent, which was used on such occasions; and placed not far from the altar in the chapel, in the view of a number of spectators who had assembled, perhaps about forty.
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Old people, with other old people, are not so old.
