Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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The lunch in a normal American restaurant is very problematic for me. I don't like to have hot food for lunch.
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Yes, we've still got more work to do. More work to do for every American still in need of a good job or a raise, paid leave or a decent retirement; for every child who needs a sturdier ladder out of poverty or a world-class education; for everyone who has not yet felt the progress of these past seven and a half years.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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I call Washington 'the city of the perishable.'
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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It's absolutely critical that we not only provide support from cradle to career in the education system but also the wraparound services.
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I still pray a lot. I still believe in God. I just don't believe in any set religion.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.
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Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.
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I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.
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In truth, I became a conductor because deep down I wanted to conduct Brahms's four symphonies and Richard Strauss's tone poems.
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Paintings are but research and experiment. I never do a painting as a work of art. All of them are researches. I search constantly and there is a logical sequence in all this research.
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But when it became an international hoopla where careers lived and died on whether or not you did or didn't get an Oscar, then it got out of hand.
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Now that Arab women are pouring into the streets by the million, men discover with dismay that they, not women, were the captives of the harem dream.
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I'm not much of a rooter. They're two really good teams. I don't get into anybody's business but mine.
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Language death is like no other form of disappearance. When people die, they leave signs of their presence in the world, in the form of their dwelling places, burial mounds, and artefacts - in a word, their archaeology. But spoken language leaves no archaeology. When a language dies, which has never been recorded, it is as if it has never been.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
