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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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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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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With due apologies to Shakespeare, some people are born writers, some people achieve it after a lot of hard work, some people have a writing career thrust upon them. I am in that last group.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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'Clampdown' (1979)
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One of the things that I first remember wanting to be was a 'geolisty' - that was the best I could say when I was a kid. That was right after I stopped wanting to be a fireman or a truck driver. Because my dad is a paleontologist who worked with the Smithsonian, I got to see the bones up close and the exhibits behind the scenes there.
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We have torn up Marxist materialism and we have disorientated Masonry. We have thwarted the Satanic machinations of the clandestine Masonic superstate. Despite its control of the world’s press and numerous international politicians. Spain’s struggle is a Crusade; as soldiers of God we carry with us the evangelism of the world!
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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.
