Mark Kurlansky Quotes
The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have for salt.
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I hope people describe my music as lyrically driven, cross genre. Kind of alternative, kind of indie, kind of rap, kind of everything.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.
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I think it's all about making records when you're inspired to make them.
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If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.
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Filming is a witnessing process. You don't try to control it, even though sometimes you wish you could because it can go really, really wrong for you.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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Striking out Ruth and Gehrig in succession was too big an order.
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Once you start a war, you have to win.
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When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'
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One learns how to change gears within a concert repertoire.
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The English playwrights of the '50s and '60s didn't really keep writing or getting produced, while the Irish did. There's encouragement for the younger ones also in the fact that Ireland is exceptional in its ability to make theater part of the national dialogue, and it reaches to all four corners of the country.
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I wouldn't be doing this dumb ass live-stream if I wasn't, so get over it.
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If there is a God and you believe in him, you know the best is yet to come.
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The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
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Ἀψυχίᾳ γὰρ γλῶσσαν ἁρπάζει φόβος.
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When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.
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It would help if human experts agreed on the meaning of such basic terms as intelligence, consciousness, or awareness. They don't. It's hard to build something that's incompletely defined.
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I've certainly auditioned for big budget studio films. I don't know if it's because there's so much money involved, but a lot of times the pressure overwhelms me and engulfs me. I end up falling apart in the audition.
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Those who have the immense dishonesty to fight with a ballot box in one hand and a rifle in the other have no place in democratic politics.
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There's the part of my life that the public and I share together. And there's the part that's mine to keep for myself. And that's mine. For me.
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The fact that, almost a century after refrigeration made salt-preserved foods irrelevant, we are still eating them demonstrates the affection we have for salt.
