Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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	I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.   
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	That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.   
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	I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!   
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	Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.   
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	I've always written pop songs. I tend to take inspiration from more experimental genres, like ambient music, but at the root of the song, it's verse-chorus-verse.   
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	You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.   
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	On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.   
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	I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.   
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	In 1966, thoughts about playing games using an ordinary TV set began to percolate in my mind.   
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	Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.   
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	Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?   
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	The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.   
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	Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.   
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	My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.   
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	Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.   
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	I know that I'm capable of moving around on the guitar. I can express myself the way I want to and feel good about it. But as far as technical chops, I'm not a learned musician.   
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	I am undeniably afraid of the dark!   
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	I decided to pursue music, so I dropped out of school and I told my parents I didn't want any money from them. I got three jobs and I just hit the ground running.   
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	Being veterans of the struggle to push back against fundamentalist Christians, American liberals are well acquainted with the pitfalls of the neoconservative flirtation with the religious-right.   
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	Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?   
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	That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.   
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	The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.   
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	I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.   
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	Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.   
 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					 
					