Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.

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• We put more emphasis on who can drive a car than on who can be a parent. And I think there ought to be mandatory parenting classes starting in high school, and you should have to have a license to be able to be a parent to explain that you don't give alcohol to kids.

  

  Dale Archer
  • School
  • Kids
  • High

• If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Want
  • Go
  • Chef

• Even complex passwords are getting easy to break if they're too short. That's because today's inexpensive computer chips have the power of supercomputers from the year 2000.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Power
  • Today
  • Year

• We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • People
  • Development
  • Islamic

• I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Up
  • Children

• I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Trust
  • Gold
  • Diamonds

• Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Belief

• I like junk food, French fries, hamburgers - I love it.

  

  Rain
  • Food
  • Hamburgers
  • Fries

• Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Thought
  • Devil
  • Witch

• I love men. They are intelligent and sensitive, but there's also that hard-edged arrogant side, which is just so attractive.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Men
  • Intelligent
  • Attractive

• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Religion
  • Masses
  • Opium

• But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere.

  

  Origen
  • Good
  • God
  • Change

• Smallpox was the worst disease in history. It killed more people than all the wars in history.

  

  Larry Brilliant
  • People
  • History
  • Worst

• I was familiar with 'Addicted' for a long time, even prior to the movie, way before it got the greenlight. And when it finally got the greenlight, I was very happy to be a part of it.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• As I watched bookstores close, I began to wonder how that felt for the owners. Owning a bookstore was their dream and now they're struggling and seeing those dreams fall apart.

  

  Karen Kingsbury
  • Dream
  • Fall
  • Wonder

• I still love physical product. I still hold out for actual CDs, because in radio, everyone just wants to send you a file to play.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Play
  • Wants
  • Physical

• Fred Segal was founded - by none other than Fred Segal - as a tiny jeans retailer in 1968. In the 1970s Segal, began selling space to employees, starting with his nephew Ron Herman.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Space
  • Starting
  • Jeans

• I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.

  

  Jack Brickhouse
  • Sports
  • Entertainment
  • Documentary

• The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

  

  Jennifer Gilmore
  • World
  • Safety
  • Chaos

• When you do deals with France involved, you want to make sure that the government endorses your deal, understands the strategic rationale.

  

  Rajeev Suri
  • Government
  • Involved
  • Understands

• There are a range of associated impacts related to increasing temperatures which affect both evaporation rates and river systems, which are already over stressed, and these will hit farming communities and the health of crop lands.

  

  Peter Garrett Midnight Oil
  • Health
  • River

• I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.

  

  Luke Wilson
  • Time
  • Long
  • Movie

• I've never seen 'Seinfeld', never seen 'The Cosby Show'; I just don't watch it. I saw half of 'Oprah' one time. I'd rather read.

  

  August Wilson
  • Time

• I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Book
  • Paris