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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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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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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We must set up large refugee camps outside the E.U. with armed security and financial support provided by the Union.
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Lobby for Decency Declares Brain an Erogenous Zone, Demands Mandatory Hatting.
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The whole rise of new adult contemporary music and smooth jazz was a nice surprise.
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'One Hundred Years of Solitude' is a masterpiece because it is an episodic novel that has a rigorous form - an unprecedented combination. From the very beginning we know the town of Macondo will endure only a century, so there is a limit to the length of the narrative.
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I think the business community is smart enough to realise that just having a trade union is not enough. They are smart enough to know they need to be part of a union that has political and financial power.
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Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.
