Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.
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In order to make further progress, particularly in the field of cosmic rays, it will be necessary to apply all our resources and apparatus simultaneously and side-by-side; an effort which has not yet been made, or at least, only to a limited extent.
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There is, therefore, no solution possible other than an economy directed by the workers through their organisations of control-through the workers' syndicates.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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I'm trying hard to keep my Australian accent. My mom would disown me if I didn't.
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My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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A revolution is interesting insofar as it avoids like the plague the plague it promised to heal.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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You should never do anything too much. If you only eat healthy food, that is too much. Success is balance - a banker with no time with his kids, he's not successful. If he doesn't have time to walk his kids to school, that is not success - that is a mistake.
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If you put people up on pedestals, there's only one way for them to go, and that is down.
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Some of the greatest survivors have been women. Look at the courage so many women have shown after surviving earthquakes in the rubble for days on end.
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I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.
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When I designed my first house in L.A., I didn't have any money - I did it all on my own. I liked that.
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The reality of music itself, which is the fabric of life for me, is where most of my attention is.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
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It is an uncontrolled truth, that no man ever made an ill figure who understood his own talents, nor a good one who mistook them.
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Society itself is responsible for the degradation.
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You hear in the person you're destined to love the sound of those yet to be born.
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Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.
