Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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Music is one of the most powerful things the world has to offer. No matter what race or religion or nationality or sexual orientation or gender that you are, it has the power to unite us.
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Although the evidence at this trial shows that Charles Manson was the leader of the conspiracy to commit these murders, there is no evidence that he actually personally killed any of the seven victims in this case.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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My hat's off to Shonda Rhimes.
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We legitimately walked into 'Anthem' head-on, not paying enough attention to internal band tension.
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I came up with a story and I wrote it.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I never personally complained; everybody else complained for me.
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Searches of al Qaeda sites in Afghanistan, undertaken since American-backed forces took control there, are not known to have turned up a significant cache of nuclear materials.
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There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate's loot on Treasure Island.
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I placed over a thousand deaf people in jobs throughout my career working for the deaf.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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Growing up in the digital age of filmmaking, I'm as guilty as anyone of overshooting.
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Failure is an option. It's what you do with the failure that makes you who you are. Our failures mold us. I have failed at several things in my life. What sets some of us apart, is that when we fail, we can't sleep at night. It haunts us until we have our time at redemption.
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Children don't just play any more - they're far too busy learning to fence and taking extra French classes. In the end, you're actually doing more damage to your children by trying to hot-house them. It's far better to remain a calm parent.
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
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My whole life was geared toward being a highly educated person.
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
