Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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My type of basketball is about how to create space, how to maneuver, how to get your shot off.
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Any reaction is better than none.
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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Our problem at the moment is a problem of success.
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Then you have to be with somebody who understands your job. Understands there are gonna be dollybirds going, 'Hi I'm Candy,' and be prepared to ignore that. And also be prepared to be there when you get home. That's a difficult job.
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I'm a girl from a good family who was very well brought up. One day I turned my back on it all and became a bohemian.
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Empowering those around you to be heard and valued makes the difference between a leader who simply instructs and one who inspires.
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Thoroughly read all your contracts. I really mean thoroughly.
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Bureaucracy, the rule of no one, has become the modern form of despotism.
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The phrase 'private option' itself has become politically toxic.
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Buddha didn’t teach that life hurts because of pain; it hurts because the cause of suffering hasn’t been examined.
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Though the object of being a Great Power is to be able to fight a Great War, the only way of remaining a Great Power is not to fight one.
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If you can adapt to and balance in a world that is always moving and unstable, you learn how to become tolerant to the permanence of change and difference.
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To approach the stranger is to invite the unexpected, release a new force, let the genie out of the bottle. It is to start a new train of events that is beyond your control.
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Different periods, different cultures - it's just the way my mind works. My music is that way as well. There's a foundation but the inspiration comes from everywhere. I've been influenced by so many things.
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Sometimes we think, "We're the only people who see it this way," but that's really not the case.
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Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or accessible forms of some quantity, such as energy or money, are transformed into useless, inaccessible forms of the same quantity. That is not to say that these three processes don't have fringe benefits: taxes pay for roads and schools; the second law of thermodynamics drives cars, computers and metabolism; and death, at the very least, opens up tenured faculty positions.
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A lot of my work reflects the incredible influence that America has had on contemporary African culture. Some of it's insidious, some of it's innocuous, some of it's invisible. It's there.
