Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
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I am a very proud Hindu. The foundation of my personality is laid on the teachings of Swami Vivekananda or Sanatan Dharm or the Geeta. And if my religious practices or anybody's religious practices is given any kind of sadistic name, it instills fear about other person's religious practices.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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I definitely associate music with color. For example, my first record has a red cover but it is totally green and blue to me.
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Statistics is the grammar of science.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I generally wake up at 4:30, have breakfast No. 1, then get to the pool by 5 a.m.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I love ensemble work. I love making pieces and building things together.
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That nature does not care, one way or the other, is the true abyss. That only man cares, in his finitude facing nothing but death, alone with his contingency and the objective meaninglessness of his projecting meanings, is a truly unprecedented situation.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I have a friendship with Hezbollah, and I also have contacts outside of Lebanon, but it doesn't mean I follow anyone's agenda.
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The proper study of Man is anything but Man; and the most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity.
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Money is a kind of poetry.
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Kudos to you for generating enough sweat that it actually drips off of your body - and all over the machine you are using at the time. If you sweat a lot, that's fine, but wipe down the damn machine when you're done... or I will confront you, and it will not be pretty.
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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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Is it okay for a U.S. bank to pay a U.S. banker but not a U.K. bank to pay a U.S. banker?
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I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
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I was inspired by the classic rock radio of the Seventies. They separated Chuck Berry and the Beatles from the Led Zeppelins and Bostons and Peter Framptons of the time. In many ways, classic rock became bigger than mainstream rock.
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People say, 'Oh you're so good, and you're so young!' It's like, 'No. I'm good. Period!'
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One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
