Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I was practically driven to Rome in order to obtain the opportunities for art culture and to find a social atmosphere where I was not constantly reminded of my color. The land of liberty had no room for a colored sculptor.
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If a writer is to tell his own story - tell it slowly, and as if it were a story about other people - if he is to feel the power of the story rise up inside him, if he is to sit down at a table and patiently give himself over to this art - this craft - he must first have been given some hope.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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Anybody with skin issues knows that that's a very sensitive subject, and that's why I've never shared that I have vitiligo because I do.
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I don't know who Little Richard is.
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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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Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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We don't grow older, we grow riper.
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I usually listen to classic rock and roll.
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You have to be able to generate usable energy without greenhouse gas emissions, and you have to be able to do it cheaply if you want people to choose that approach. That means new technologies.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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I'd never kill myself for a man. I wouldn't do it for anybody.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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It is not what a man does that is of final importance, but what he is in what he does. The atmosphere produced by a man, much more than his activities, has the lasting influence.
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All a lot of women see are dollar signs.
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Your intuitive factor is what picks up other peoples vibration.
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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.
