Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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It's expected of novels that they should explain the world and create the illusion that things are ultimately logical and coherent. But that's not what I see around me. Often, events remain mysterious and unresolved, and our emotions reach no catharsis.
Damon Galgut -
We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
In the Gulf War, U.S. Marine Corps wheeled vehicles were killing Iraqi T-72 tanks.
Ralph Peters -
When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
Sampha -
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
Randy Jackson Breakfast Club -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I don't know who Little Richard is.
Bar Refaeli -
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
Karen Mills -
If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
Samantha Bond -
I asked my parents for permission to study in America and they were so sure that I wouldn't get in and get a scholarship that they encouraged me to try. So I applied to Yale and got an excellent scholarship. I then worked for the Boston Consulting Group for six and half years.
Indra Nooyi -
Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
Ted Deutch -
No history can be a faithful mirror. If it were, it would be as long and as dull as life itself. It must be a selection, and, being a selection, must inevitably be biased.
T. E. Hulme -
The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.
Karl Marx -
There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
Barton Gellman -
Going to Freedom's Watch was a job opportunity that presented itself, so I jumped at it.
Carl Forti -
There are clearly many good politicians who are guided by religious belief, so the mix can work. But there's a line to be drawn. It would be hugely dangerous for a country's laws to be set by the scriptures, and particularly those of the expansionist religions.
Zac Goldsmith
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About two hundred or two hundred and fifty years after the death of Grettir, his history was committed to writing, and then it became fixed - nothing further was added to it, and we have his story after having travelled down over two hundred years as a tradition.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.
Maya Angelou -
Such is my love, to thee I so belong, That for thy right myself will bear all wrong.
William Shakespeare -
My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.
Orlando Bloom -
I want to be a mayor who helped, really helped.
Harold Washington -
There is always something left to love.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez