Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I am of that '60s generation, and for people of my age, that phrase 'change the world' has a real resonance.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.
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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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To sing a song is quite different than to write a poem. I'm not and never will be a novelist, but to write a novel is not the same thing as writing a play. There is a difference in form, but essentially what you're after is the same thing.
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When I was a kid, among the other embarrassing things I would do, and there's a list of stupid things, but I would make these dumb comedy tapes. I would often make prank phone calls, but I would also do it with friends.
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Every show finds its groove, I would say. The first season is the season to figure out the dynamics, the workflow.
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I don't make Christian rap, but I am a Christian rapper.
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'Marielena' was a wonderful experience that so many people still remember today. It challenged me to practice my Spanish. Having been born and raised in Miami, English was very much my dominant language!
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A curious thing about this rarefied world is that bloggers are almost unfailingly contemptuous toward everyone except one another.
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Bravely going out into the world and trying, yet still deep down believing you're ruled by your past circumstances, is like forgiving someone but still hoping they sit in something wet.
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Hip-hop has been hijacked by a Luciferian conspiracy. People have used hip-hop in a lot of ways that cause a lot of mind problems. They use the word wrongfully. They use it to mean a part instead of a whole.
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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.
