Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
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Nearly all government advice on terrorism sacrifices practical particulars for an unalarming tone. The usual guidance is to maintain a three-day supply of food and water along with a radio, flashlight, batteries and first-aid kit.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You can de-select the songs that you don't want to have on the record, but I hope we always put something out that has a lot of songs that the majority of people will love.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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Novels are my favorite to write and read. I do like writing personal essays, too. I'm not really a short story writer, nor do I tend to gravitate to them as a reader.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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In a small town, it's either sports or a band with your buddies. I was always athletic. But in college, I was exposed to all this new music, and I was drawn to hip-hop and R&B.
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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Bipartisanship helps to avoid extremes and imbalances. It causes compromises and accommodations. So let's cooperate.
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All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.
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When you're rich you don't write checks.
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I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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I put the movie days totally behind me... It was a part of my past that I really kind of put in a little drawer and shut the door.
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No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace, is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.
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There are eleven million Jews in the world. I don't say that all of them will come here, but I expect several million, and with natural increase I can quite imagine a Jewish state of ten million.
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Looking back, I realise I had to grow up and be responsible at a very tender age.
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I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 16, and he was eight years older. My father was furious about this 24-year-old, and I had to hide the relationship.
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A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
