Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.
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By the end of 2008, clearly the Al Qaeda and Sunni insurgency had been relatively stabilized. And in the Al Qaeda's mind, they were defeated.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.
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I love the 'Lost' ending. I stand by it, but there are a lot of people out there who hate it.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I've made a decision and now I must face the consequences.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.
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George W. Bush always said and did what he believed and he let it rip.
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I have been in America only once since Mr. Clinton became your president - as a speaker at the United Nations.
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Country music fans are extremely supportive. Once they're with you, they're with you for life.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.
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The minute I started being recognised, I became much more discreet.
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Most ideas don't work out. Almost all ideas don't work out. So it's okay if yours didn't work out.
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It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.
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As a body in a world, here is our choice: we can be more loving or less loving. That's it. We can relax as the entire moment's show of love's swirl, feeling open as all--a vicious rainstorm, tweeting birds, our lover's lips, a sense of worthlessness-- or we can close to some aspect of experience, pulling away as if we were separate.
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When a man marries his mistress, he creates a job vacancy.
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Holy Men! Holy Cabbages! Holy Bean Pods! What do they do but live and suck in sustenance and grow fat?
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I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.
