Mark Kurlansky Quotes
As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
Mark Kurlansky
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
Natalie Dormer
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My last album as J. Tillman, 'Singing Ax,' that was really a premeditated death rattle of the aesthetic precedent I had set. I realized I wasn't creating spontaneously; I was enforcing all these parameters. I was too self-loathing or something, and there was this obvious dissonance between my conversational voice and creative voice.
J. Tillman
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
Ferdinand Marcos
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The thing about the performance part... starting with improv and standup, you're starting with yourself as the character, and I don't feel as much like, 'Oh, I'm a vessel for -' I feel like someone who calls themselves an actor is a vessel.
Ilana Glazer
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In 2010, I sold my car, a Toyota Majester, for just a lakh-and-a-half to be able to feed my horses. It continues to be like a hole, where I put all my money.
Randeep Hooda
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
Ted Williams
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Go - take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man, and What men live by. When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven.
Leo Tolstoy
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The truth is many of us have been socialized to think that if we are not the very best, if we are not at the top 1 percent of whatever it is we do, then we are not good enough. To reinforce this already pervasive mental model, society has established a competitive hierarchy for just about everything.
Elizabeth Thornton
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Hypotheses are only the pieces of scaffolding which are erected round a building during the course of construction, and which are taken away as soon as the edifice is completed.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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I always wear blue shirts and I like wine or purple ties.
Jim Lehrer
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Class has always been Tom Wolfe's subject, and I suspect the reason for much of the disfavor in which he is held.
John Gregory Dunne
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As with wine, geography affects the flavor. Oysters are usually named for a locale.
Mark Kurlansky
