Mark Kurlansky Quotes
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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I remember when people actually wore coats and ties to theatre every night. They don't anymore. It's very different.
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I think America has a brilliant future.
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I just wear black and gray all the time. If you Google Image me, you'll just see a bunch of black and gray. It's simple. If I like a shirt, I'll buy six or eight of them, wear them back-to-back, and just wait for somebody to say something. 'That's the same shirt you wore yesterday.' 'Yeah, but this one is fresh.'
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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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I'll give you my worst nightmare. I'm dreaming that I'm onstage, the curtain goes up, and I have no idea what my lines are or what's going on. I think I should know, I kind of know, I remember rehearsing... and the audience is there waiting.
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In a world awash in debt, power shifts to creditors.
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Liberated from the error of pagan tradition through the benevolence and loving kindness of the good God with the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and by the operation of the Holy Spirit, I was reared from the very beginning by Christian parents. From them I learned even in babyhood the Holy Scriptures which led me to a knowledge of the truth.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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I think life gives you lemons, and the thing that I'm working on doing is not watering it down, not putting sugar in it. Just drink it straight. The more you can take life head on... it's gonna make you a better person, and then you have nothing left to be afraid of. And what an awesome way to live.
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My work is focused on using data to tell stories and explore our common humanity.
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We're headed towards a fascist economy in which you have big government, big corporations and big labor, and they're all in cahoots to strangle the entrepreneur.
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Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
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You don't not want to beat somebody because you're friends with them.
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To me an unnecessary action, or shot, or casualty, was not only waste but sin.
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Parsi theater was known for melodrama.
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If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.
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The man who is successful is the man who is useful.
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A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad marriage or none - I believe bad marriage would be better. It is a bitter experience and a high price to pay for fulfillment, but it is the better alternative.
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It's easy to like the most popular films, but I have a great fondness for 'A Life Less Ordinary'.
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I have played some of the great men in history and I believe in the great man who does heroic deeds, even in these egalitarian times.
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A woman never sees what we do for her, she only sees what we don't do.
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Americans are so egocentric.
