Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.
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September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.
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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
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I always knew that I was going to be a writer. There was no question in my mind about that.
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I train as hard as I can every time I train and I do extra training every day and I've done that since I was a young boy.
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To read too many books is harmful.
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I was supposed to go see Led Zeppelin when I was in, like, the 8th or 9th grade, and then John Bonham died and I never was able to. For me, music is such a huge part of my life, and I use songs like memory triggers. So a lot of my memories of being a kid and growing up are associated with different songs.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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The value of small business contracting is indisputable. These firms bring healthy competition to the federal market to drive down prices. They are our nation's innovators and job creators, and securing a federal contract helps them grow and offers more benefit to the economy.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.
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I have more free time than a lot of individuals, so, instead of talking, I sometimes write.
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The science hangs like a gathering fog in a valley, a fog which begins nowhere and goes nowhere, an incidental, unmeaning inconvenience to passers-by.
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The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are.
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I'm always willing to listen to somebody else's ideas...because we can always learn more.
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Grace is the divine assistance or heavenly help each of us desperately needs to qualify for the celestial kingdom. Thus, the enabling power of the Atonement strengthens us to do and be good and to serve beyond our own individual desire and natural capacity.
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
