Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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• If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • Live
  • Remember
  • Hope

• At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Age
  • Cool
  • Voice

• My father was overbearing. Very controlling. He was always the way he is, even before my success. He was not always a good person. He'd play mind games to make sure I knew my place. I don't see him, which is unfortunate. But I don't have any desire to see him. I vaguely know where he is, and I don't want to know.

  

  Macaulay Culkin
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Father

• Oh my God, there are so many songs I wish I had written. 'Waters of March,' I wish I had written 'My Baby Just Cares for Me,' I wish I had written 'This Will Be Our Year,' I mean, there's millions of them. 'Wouldn't It Be Nice?'

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • God
  • Nice
  • Wish

• If you've never tasted what it's like to get up in the morning and be pleased to go to work, you don't know what you're missing.

  

  Larry Smith
  • Up
  • Work
  • Know

• I'd better make hay while the sun shines.

  

  Xander Berkeley
  • Sun
  • Better
  • Sun Shines

• There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Love
  • Necessary

• Being a dad changes everything for the better and I’m really enjoying it.

  

  Lionel Messi
  • Dad

• Team Griffin Foundation is a foundation trying to inspire young men and women to give them organization, give them something to have, kind of like when I was growing up. I had people who were supporting me, giving me the right tools that I needed to be able to achieve my dreams.

  

  Blake Griffin
  • People
  • Up
  • Men

• Let us seize the special opportunity that is ours to act boldly and decisively at a time when the eyes of our fellow citizens, both present and future, are upon us.

  

  Bob Taft
  • Time
  • Future
  • Opportunity

• I believe that the death penalty is an effective penalty.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Believe
  • Death

• Life is, and should be, a little hard. Getting punched in the face or getting an occasional concussion will probably happen to us all at some point in our lives. We can handle it.

  

  Peter Berg
  • Life

• People are vocal, so you hear the pros and cons of your shows.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People

• There's a difference between the blues of the New Orleans guys and anyone else and the difference is in a chord, but I can't figure the name of it. It's a different chord, and they all make it.

  

  Jimmy Rushing
  • Different

• I believe it's less risky long-term to embrace change.

  

  Charlie Ergen
  • Believe
  • Long

• I honestly never thought in my career I was going to do a body-switching movie.

  

  David Dobkin
  • Movie
  • Career

• The genre of hard-partying girls seems to have gone out of style - instead of young women who drink too much, it's young women who don't eat enough.

  

  Amy Argetsinger
  • Party
  • Style
  • Enough

• The side of fairytales I don't like is that they always have happy endings, that there's just good and evil, and things are perfect. But life is a little more complicated, and that's what I try to teach my kids.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• [Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Nonviolence
  • Build Up
  • Negro Men

• We have a thin candy shell, I'm surprised you didn't know that.

  

  Tré Cool Green Day
  • Candy Shell

• I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez