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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Tritt listened placidly, clearly understanding nothing, but content to be listening; while Odeen, transmitting nothing, was as clearly content to be lecturing.
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To me it's a two-way street. They're good to me, and I'm good to them. It's a natural thing for me to love people, and I think people sense it. ... I am secure with the kind of person I am. I don't feel like I'm better than anyone, but I'm just as good as anyone.
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There is no need to accept the standards of the world at large.
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The FDA and much, but not all, of the orthodox medical profession are actively hostile against vitamins and minerals... They are out to get the health food industry...And they are trying to do this out of active hostility and prejudice.
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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.
