Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.
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Our mission is to help founders and anyone or anything that helps founders helps us with our mission.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I just fell into the job as a fashion editor at a teen magazine. I was there for two years, and I left there as a senior fashion editor at the age of 25.
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Do we really want Washington administrators coming between us and our doctors?
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I've always had great faith in the Man Upstairs.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I love the science-fiction genre because there's always so many endless possibilities! It's a limitless genre and can be fun playing around with otherworldly ideas.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you.
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I often have the impression that the book I've just finished isn't satisfied: that it rejects me because I haven't successfully completed it. Because there is no going back, I'm forced to begin a new book so I can finally complete the previous one.
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Meeting Oprah Winfrey, I cried like a baby. Meeting Steven Spielberg, I cried like a baby. Meeting Denzel Washington, I gushed like a crazy woman. If I don't get excited or star struck by someone I've been dying to meet, it's time to retire.
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In spite of holidays when I was free to visit London theatres and explore the countryside, I spent four very miserable years as a colonial at an English school.
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When I was young, I was extremely scared of dying. But now I think it a very, very wise arrangement. It's like a light that is extinguished. Not very much to make a fuss about.
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When I'm not longer rappin', I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg.
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I'm just a hard worker, and I think that you don't need to have age to be a hard worker.
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Congress has the constitutional authority to investigate the other agencies of government. We are the watchdogs of the taxpayer's money, and we have the right to know how that money is being spent and to conduct oversight over the government.
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I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps.
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Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.
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I'm usually writing about survival. I never planned it, but it runs through all my books.
