Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
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You take the best of our tradition as a start, and I'll take the best of Christianity ... From there we can build.
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My father's a Southern Baptist minister. I wasn't lighting cars on fire; I just wasn't.
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I want to stop transforming and just start being.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.
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Industrialization starts with the formation of capital - it does not matter how. It can be created by saving, by the state enforcing its will on the people, by the very rich themselves.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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There's nothing that's impossible to me. You can ask my parents.
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People associate girls with long blonde hair with the girls in 'Clueless' or 'Legally Blonde.' You can't be smart and educated and have an opinion because you are supposed to be stupid.
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VR is going to become something mainstream, but it's not going to happen right away. You just don't have the horsepower to make it happen on a device, much less a cheap enough and comfortable enough device that a normal consumer is going to want to have.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.
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I've never worked with huge pop acts, I mightn't like it, but it's something I've always wanted to try.
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I was born in 1947, and my generation, like its predecessors, was taught that since our achievements received little notice or credit from white America, we were not to discuss our faults, lapses, or uncertainties in public.
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Maybe there's two types of people in the world: those people who favor humans over ideology, and those people who favor ideology over humans.
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When I did get married and then had children, it was Beatles' songs I sang to them at night. As one of the youngest of 24 cousins, I had never held an infant or baby-sat. I didn't know any lullabies, so I sang Sam and Grace to sleep with 'I Will' and 'P.S. I Love You.'
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I remember meeting my manager Eamonn for the very first time, and one of the first things he said to me was, 'You're fat. The first thing you need to go is get to a gym.' It was quite a wake-up call. I got a bit angry initially, like, 'The cheek of him', but I'm quite a pragmatic and thick-skinned person, so I just went ahead and joined the gym.
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Conservative: One who admires radicals a century after they're dead.
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"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."
