Mark Kurlansky Quotes
In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being 'soft on Basques.'
Quotes to Explore
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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Entrepreneurship is the very back bone of our country and what makes us great - we are a nation of founders.
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There has to be a balance between power and vulnerability. That's something I feel I have in my own life, something I struggle with and - on a good day - like about myself.
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Dogs got personality. Personality goes a long way.
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Conversations are the most direct way to connect with people.
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I think that Indy is special to me. The greater the distance between the last time I drove an Indy car and the next time, I wouldn't like that to be too big.
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What we seek we shall find; what we flee from flees from us.
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Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
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I think less than people think I do about politics. I care about writing.
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Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.
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I love the anxiety, the pressure of the loud room full of yapping kids. But I'm a kid myself.
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I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.
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America to me is so varied and exciting. I always feel nostalgia for the place I'm not in, and then I get there and find myself in a traffic jam going into the Lincoln Tunnel, and I think, 'God, why was I romanticizing this part of the country?' I think it has to do with the romantic, unrealistic temperament.
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I've always loved to perform in front of people, but it became pretty serious when I participated in 'Sweden's Got Talent.' I thought it would be a fun thing to do, and I was just like, 'OK, why not?' And Mom was like, 'OK, sure, sure, do this!' So I did, and I won it!
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I got to the point where I'd featured on songs; I'd done backing singing for major artists. I'd done all these shows, but it was always for other people.
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Be happy in your own skin.
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When Hegel later became a man of influence' he insisted that the Jews should be granted equal rights because civic rights belong to man because he is a man and not on account of his ethnic origins or his religion.
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I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
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The virtues of science are skepticism and independence of thought.
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I would buy a Mac today if I was not working at Microsoft.
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Over the years, I've had two ankle operations, torn my hamstring, had my hip resurfaced, and snapped the anterior cruciate ligament in my knee.
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I really don't know anything about music.
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In spite of muzzling the press, imprisoning thousands, and engaging in torture, kidnapping and murder, the Socialist government was still vulnerable to the accusation of being 'soft on Basques.'
