Mark Kurlansky Quotes

The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

Mark Kurlansky

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• Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Together
  • Technology
  • Wealth

• I don't think it's necessary to shout if you have a good story. But I also don't think you should shy away from being bold in the statement that you're making.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Think
  • Story

• If I don't get healthy food, my staff cooks for me.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Food
  • Me
  • Healthy

• I've played a lot of elegance and refinement, so to do something really down and dirty is a great attraction.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Great
  • Down
  • Dirty

• I never thought of myself doing period. When you're in your acting classes, and you think about the kind of roles you want to play, it's always 'modern relationship drama'-type things.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Relationship
  • Myself
  • Drama

• I'm a closet outdoorsy athletic enthusiast, and I would love to do a rafting and hiking trip someday and maybe sleep in a treehouse and bathe in a chilly winding river.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Love
  • Sleep
  • River

• I've always adored my father's music, but ever since I'd started singing, whether it was while I was still a student at the University of Massachusetts or professionally, I avoided Dad's material.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Music
  • Father
  • Dad

• They have to be able to spark my interest so I want to pursue it, and they have to have an awesome personality, really laid-back. All those things are sexy to me.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Personality
  • Sexy
  • Awesome

• I always say when it comes to dream matches, that is not up to me: that's up to the WWE Universe. That's up to the fans. But there is a guy on 'SmackDown' that I have yet to wrestle yet that's certainly gonna happen at some point, and that's Randy Orton.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Dream

• In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • People
  • Good
  • Best

• Human rights will be a powerful force for the transformation of reality when they are not simply understood as externally defined norms of behavior but are lived as the spontaneous manifestation of internalized values.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Reality
  • Powerful
  • Values

• It was an honour to be a part of that series. I still get fan mail every day for that show; a big portion of my fan base is from 'Gilmore Girls.'

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Show

• I cannot change anything, so I don't want to think about what I would have done.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Done
  • Think
  • Want

• News isn't even the truth on television.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Truth
  • Television
  • News

• I think science fiction helps us think about possibilities, to speculate - it helps us look at our society from a different perspective. It lets us look at our mores, using science as the backdrop, as the game changer.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Different
  • Think
  • Game

• As we wash our body so we should wash destiny, change life as we change clothes.

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Life
  • Destiny

• I was never revolutionary. The only revolutionary in our time was Strauss!'

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Time

• How sweet on the breeze of the evening swellsThe vesper call of those soothing bells,Borne softly and dying in echoes away,Like a requiem sung to the parting day.

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Sweet
  • Dying

• In the deepest sense, the being in a state of sin is the sin, the particular sins are not the continuation of sin, they are expressions of its continuation.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard
  • Sense
  • Sin
  • Expression

• If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Children
  • Together

• I would quite like to play a big concert as Freddie Mercury. I can't sing that great and I haven't yet found a use for the over large size of my teeth. I quite fancy a mustache like that and he was such a great showman.

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Great
  • Size
  • Teeth

• Since anti-racist individuals did not control mass media, the media became the primary tool that would be used and is still used to convince black viewers, and everyone else, of black inferiority.

  

  bell hooks
  • Black
  • Control

• What's better, I wonder - to be a toy for the humans, or to control your own destiny , even if the only way to do so is suicide?

  

  Rachel Cohn
  • Way
  • Control
  • Wonder

• The environmental movement does not always have to be about stopping things. It can be about fixing problems.

  

  Mark Kurlansky