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Quotes by Colombian Authors

"No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia."
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Alvaro Uribe Velez
"No one can feel as the owner of the country and no one can feel excluded from the right of property. We must all suffer Colombia."
"I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most."
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John Leguizamo
"I like drama. I love being in a drama where I get to be the funny guy. That's what I really love the most."
"It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent."
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Shakira
"It doesn't bother me to talk about my private life, it doesn't bother me to talk about anything. My life is like a glass of water, transparent."
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"If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old."
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Sofia Vergara
"If you're asking if my breasts are natural, yes, this is how I've looked since I was 13 years old."
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"He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: "Only God knows how much I loved you."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: "Only God knows how much I loved you."
"I just want to serve Colombia."
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Alvaro Uribe Velez
"I just want to serve Colombia."
"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
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Shakira
"I admire Madonna because she always did whatever she felt like doing. She went through some controversial periods when people rejected her, but she kept on reinventing herself."
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good."
"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk."
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John Leguizamo
"Yeah, that came out of a reading. It was great. It's such a fun crew to be with, and we all went out the night before and that really encouraged us to go out and get drunk."
"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood."
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him."
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it."
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."
"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."
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Shakira
"I always believed that women have rights and that there are some women that are intelligent enough to claim those rights. There are some others that are stupid enough not to."
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"In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity."
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Alvaro Uribe Velez
"In the name of justice there cannot be subjection and in the name of peace there cannot be impunity."
"Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry."
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Shakira
"Because of you, I'm running out of reasons to cry."
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"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with."
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Shakira
"I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with."
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
"I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia."
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Shakira
"I am trying to make my accent so it won't bother anyone, but I am not going to drive myself crazy trying to pretend I am an American girl when I am from Colombia."
"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words."
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Shakira
"My songs are the reflection of how I think and how I feel in that moment. But I'm conscious of the fact that artists have a responsibility before the masses and they have to take care with their words."
"I'm Colombian and nothing will change that."
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Shakira
"I'm Colombian and nothing will change that."
"Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish."
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Shakira
"Writing in English was a major challenge. I didn't want other songwriters to write for me. I wanted to preserve the spirit of my songs in Spanish. I am the same Shakira in English as I am in Spanish."
"You're a song written by the hands of God."
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Shakira
"You're a song written by the hands of God."
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"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
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Shakira
"I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that."
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"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband."
"Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself."
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Shakira
"Everyone can know what is in my heart because I find it hard to conceal myself."
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"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover."
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Shakira
"Writing songs has a therapeutic effect, and it either kills off love or wins the heart of the lover."
"My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you."
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Shakira
"My team and I have reunited two elements that coexist with difficulty: respect and affection, because when they love you they don't respect you and when they respect you they don't love you."
"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."
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John Leguizamo
"I was familiar with that and 'Rio Bravo.' 'Rio Bravo' was what John Carpenter did, that brilliant move of taking a western and turning it into an urban flick. And from there you got, you know, all the cop genre movies of the time."
"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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Shakira
"I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart."
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"Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid."
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John Leguizamo
"Latins for Republicans - it's like roaches for Raid."
"I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries."
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Alvaro Uribe Velez
"I will protect all Colombians regardless of whether the attacks come from guerrillas or paramilitaries."
"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors."
"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."
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Alvaro Uribe Velez
"The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred."
"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention."
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John Leguizamo
"He wanted to be a lawyer, couldn't afford it, so he started dealing to go to college - good intention."
"Necessity has the face of a dog."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Necessity has the face of a dog."
"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
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Shakira
"I was unaware of the dispute in Brooklyn. I would never knowingly wear any clothes or support any company who produced clothing with alleged wage and labor violations."
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry."
"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world."
"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary."
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing."
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability."
"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them."
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father."
"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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Shakira
"In this life, to earn your place you have to fight for it."
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"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
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Shakira
"I don't go out without make up. I'm a woman, you know."
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"I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world."
"Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors."
"Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love."
"I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature."
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"I discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature."
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