Mark Kurlansky Quotes

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

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• I don't consider myself a feminist, but I feel very empowered as a woman, and I've used all my resources widely. I believe in equality, but that's just naturally happening. I still want a door opened for me, to be treated like a lady, but I also want equal rights for women, of course.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Myself

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
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• It's healthy to have interests besides books.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Books
  • Healthy
  • Besides

• You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Police

• The thing is, you choose to be an actress, but not to be a celebrity.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • You
  • Celebrity
  • Choose

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Writing
  • America
  • History

• We are God's creation, and we have a responsibility to keep ourselves at our best.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Responsibility
  • Best

• Part of what made 'The Bling Ring' such a fun, freeing experience was that we got to wear these really over-the-top clothes we'd never pick in real life - like for the nightclub scenes, we'd have on these really short, really tight dresses. But you know what - I actually learned how to walk in heels on that set!

  

  Taissa Farmiga
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  • Experience

• As a young teenager I looked desperately for things to read that might excuse me or assure me I wasn't the only one, that might confirm an identity I was unhappily piecing together.

  

  Edmund White
  • Together
  • Me
  • Identity

• When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

  

  E. Y. Harburg
  • Love
  • Girl
  • I Love

• I want to live my life naked, with all my little naked kids naked in the garden.

  

  Candice Swanepoel
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kids

• Look, maybe I'm just not good at multi-tasking and am, therefore, jealous of those of you who can get in a workout while yammering on your cell phone, but for the love of all that is good and pure, shut your yap!

  

  Rachel Nichols
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  • Pure

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
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• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
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  • Work
  • Simple

• Some people look gender non-conforming because they want to look that way - they don't want to conform to society's expectations.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Society
  • Gender

• There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Want
  • Me
  • Mom

• The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

  

  Aamir Khan
  • People
  • Life
  • Learning

• For the past few years, I've been more selective than I have any right to be, but I think that's finally starting to work in my favor. I think I get way too much credit for making what people consider to be smart choices, but it's only because I made a decision to stop worrying about making money.

  

  Lizzy Caplan
  • People
  • Work
  • Money

• If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Reading
  • Enjoy

• At the heart of every really good Christmas movie is the threat, I suppose, to Christmas. Something is wrong with Christmas, in all of these movies. In 'The Polar Express,' there's a kid that doesn't really believe, and that's the threat to Christmas. In 'Santa Claus: The Movie,' jealousy and greed are threatening to overrun his Christmas.

  

  James McAvoy
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Heart

• If I take two years off, I would want to fight as much as possible.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Want
  • Fight
  • Possible

• When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
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