Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
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In tennis, because of the way it's scored, I don't think that scoring one point out of luck is ever decisive in winning. But, of course, it depends on the moment.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.
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I think it's all about the people who listen to your music, and loving playing and writing. Once you've got those two, and they're your main two priorities, then radio and TV and all the other stuff that comes with it will come. But that's not the be-all end-all.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I'm evangelical.
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I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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Even though I'm very Westernized as an individual and very Canadian, I guess I've lost some of my Chinese culture.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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Education should be totally secular. I am not telling people not to believe in God, but it should be a personal matter which should be done at home.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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I grew up in Decatur, Georgia. We had three boys in the household; actually, it felt like four of us. My pops sort of raised my uncle, too. So, it was four boys and, later, a younger sister.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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When I'm playing a part, I can feel all my body playing it; it's like really making love.
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I grew up on a farm in eastern Tennessee with a very southern lifestyle, so my roots are super country and southern, but my first concert was Britney Spears. I think that you can hear both of those influences in my music.
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We want to allow Costa Ricans to make a qualitative leap in our development and go to an economy based on innovation and developing a broadband infrastructure in order to overcome the barrier of 15 per cent penetration.
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How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
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This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.
