Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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Let us remember we are all part of one American family. We are united in common values, and that includes belief in equality under the law, basic respect for public order, and the right of peaceful protest.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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Honesty is something you can't wear out.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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People look up to Jacques Mesrine as if he were a Robin Hood, stealing from the rich, but he never gave anything back to anybody.
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I hate having my picture taken.
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My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.
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I never really ate that bad, I just ate too much. It wasn't like I had to switch to whole wheat bread or something like that. I really just had to eat less of what I was eating, and I had to exercise more.
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I half knew what to expect when I saw the cricket ground in the morning. It was when I started to talk to people working out there, I began to find what I was looking for.
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Fabo is a real rock star, but people look over it, so I'll try to bring it to the light if I can.
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I got into photography when my kids were little, and I continued talking pictures over the years.
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Campaigns are about adjustments.
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I was raised on John D. MacDonald's Travis McGee series. Something about this genre - hard-boiled-private-eye-with-heart-of-gold - never failed to take me away from whatever difficulties haunted my daily world to a wonderful land where I was no more than an enthralled spectator.
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The spoken word vanished with the wind. Likewise, the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
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What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
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Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.
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i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.
