Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
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Providence was well aware what lay ahead for me, and my Capuchin training was to prepare me for it.
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Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.
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I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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I feel that, at this point in my career, I don't want to do another television show. I don't want to do a film.
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My witness is the empty sky.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I never look at how many songs I have or how many girls are there in a movie. If I like my character, I play it.
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The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
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You have an absolute freedom in Mexican writing today in which you don't necessarily have to deal with the Mexican identity. You know why? Because we have an identity... We know who we are. We know what it means to be a Mexican.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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Superficial similarities exist between Christianity and some ancient pagan religions. But careful study reveals that there are far more dissimilarities.
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You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.
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Living in a jungle is not something easy; it's not something that you just adapt yourself to. And I think that in my case, I didn't want to adapt.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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Regulation creates a moral hazard.
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I'm just not one of those people who thought having biological children was that important, to me it was more about wanting to raise a child.
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It is no coincidence that while some major female artists have married, very few have borne children. The issue is not conservation of energy but imaginative integrity. Art is its own self-swelling, proof that the mind is greater than the body.
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It is necessary to understand that Black Power is a cry of disappointment. The Black Power slogan did not spring full grown from the head of some philosophical Zeus. It was born from the wounds of despair and disappointment. It is a cry of daily hurt and persistent pain.
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
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Capitalism is a great idea in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work.
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What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.
