Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
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The film 'Tapped' illustrates quite clearly how we've been getting 'soaked' for years by the bottled water industry.
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
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If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Whether slavery shall go into Nebraska, or other new territories, is not a matter of exclusive concern to the people who may go there. The whole nation is interested that the best use shall be made of these territories. We want them for the homes of free white people.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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There's a personal story of my own that I will write at some point, and it's a film that I will happily make. It could very well be the next thing I do, unless someone shows me something great.
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I'm very grateful to have had many brilliant students and post-docs who have worked with me. Potential is often hard to spot, but a key factor is whether they express a genuine interest in the problem and how they have thought about it.
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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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My mother was religious; she was knowledgeable about mythology and scriptures; she could tell the metaphysical nuances and make the story come to life with their deeper significance. The current generation is missing out on this.
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I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge.
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All of my businesses are profitable.
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The poem is important, but not more than the people whose survival it serves...
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There's no unemployment insurance if you don't have a job in wrestling. You really have to be committed, to have a love and a passion for the sport, a belief in yourself that you can do it.
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If you don't know where you're going, you'll wind up somewhere else. Not all those who wander are lost.
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A Bond girl must be a strong and independent woman, but at the same time charming and sensual. Those opposite qualities combined together make her interesting. She must be strong but at the same time feminine.
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I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
