Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
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There are a lot of things that I have not shared that I will never share. I do have a personal private life.
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Memory is a complicated thing, a relative to truth, but not its twin.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
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I used to sail a lot in all kinds of weather, competing on small sailboats in the ocean. And I travel a lot in Iceland on horses every summer, through the wild areas where there's no inhabitants and there are volcanoes.
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I can get a better grasp of what is going on in the world from one good Washington dinner party than from all the background information NBC piles on my desk.
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We see new things all the time. We see new retroviruses out there - which is the category that HIV falls into - and we're very, very concerned because this is the part of the world where HIV jumped from chimpanzees to humans.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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Museums are western inventions where the rich and the powerful or the government and the state tend to exhibit the signs and symbol and images of their culture.
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My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.
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I have a confession to make. In the beginning, I did not understand the Kate Moss phenomenon.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.
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My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.
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Stupidity is a talent for misconception.
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My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.
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I think maybe because of the kind of music I sing, people want to believe you're a diva. They can't believe after eight years, and eight albums, you're still relatively sane. I feel like they almost want me to throw something at somebody.
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Memory's vices are also its virtues, elements of a bridge across time that allows us to link the mind with the world.
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He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.
