Mark Kurlansky Quotes
People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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As a kid, my parents had the typical stuff going on in the home, like Bee Gees, The Carpenters. Then I got exposed to what my brothers were listening to: a lot of classic rock, Led Zeppelin. It was around the mid-'80s when the whole Electro-Techno-Pop-House music thing started happening in Chicago.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Small companies need capital to invest, expand, and create jobs. And the economy needs a healthy small business community to bolster and sustain its recovery.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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No one rises so high as he who knows not whither he is going.
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There is kind of an underground conservative movement in Hollywood, really.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Things get so sloppy when you're under the influence.
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I get most of my inspiration from older records. Most of the records that I listen to were probably made before I was born, and I was born in the mid-'70s. I don't know why, exactly, I'm drawn to those sounds.
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If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.
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Peace is not the absence of war, but a virtue based on strength of character.
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The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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I feel like I'll never get over red carpets. They're so bizarre and awkward.
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I do a mean mouth trumpet.
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The questioner has to come to an end. It is the questioner that creates the answer; and the questioner comes into being from the answer, otherwise there is no questioner.
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I suddenly thought about being backstage, and I think it shocks you to meet the people you shared your bedrooms with. And a lot of them either take themselves too seriously or don't know how to take themselves at all. But I wanted to be aware in a very sarcastic way that every song I've written has probably been written about 12-16 times before. And doing that makes it very hard for me to accept serious singer-songwriters in the world, the up-and-comers, the ones who are out there who let that define their every move, who live and die and breathe for it. It's a bit of a tragedy, I think.
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For if the honour paid to Him is shared by others, He altogether ceases to be worshipped, since His religion requires us to believe that He is the one and only God.
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I play so many weirdos in movies that it's nice to play an attractive woman.
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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
