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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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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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 Ten Commandments were not a suggestion.
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I think the way to keep a friendship is to respect that everybody is different.
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Despair itself if it goes on long enough, can become a kind of sanctuary in which one settles down and feels at ease.
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I have a concept of Naples that is not so much of a city, per se, but rather an ingredient of the human spirit that I detect in everyone, Neapolitan or not. The idea that 'Neapolitanism' and mass ignorance are somehow indissolubly linked is one that I am prepared to fight with all the strength I have.
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Knowing that you're the one who's been rejected, God it makes you feel isolated. I defy anybody not to be a bit upset. I felt as though I'd walked into the house trailing all this baggage.
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Time is at once the most valuable and the most perishable of all our possessions.
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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.
