Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Over this August district work period, like many of my colleagues, I spent a lot of time with the men and women in uniform from my home State. The 196th Field Artillery Brigade just got back from a year in Afghanistan.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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I chose films made by people I wanted to work with, about subject matter I thought was intriguing.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.
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A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart.
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A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.
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Hopefully, ... as we go here in preseason, we'll get in groove with our whole offense.
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You said I was a warrior. You told me that was my nature, and I shouldn’t argue with it. Father, you were wrong. I fought because I had to. I can’t choose my nature, but I can choose what I do. And I will choose, because now I'm free.
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Prayer means that we have come boldly into the throne room and we are standing in God's presence.
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Oh, men and women, pray through; pray through! Do not just begin to pray and pray a little while and throw up your hands and quit; but pray and pray and pray until God bends the heavens and comes down.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
