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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The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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Once I got married and had kids, I moved away from romantic roles, because it seemed wrong to have my three-year-old wondering why Daddy was kissing someone else.
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The benefits cap is right in principle because people don't pay their taxes so that families who could work don't work. People pay their taxes so we support people who really need to be supported.
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As a Buddhist, I was trained to be tolerant of everything except intolerance. I was brought up not only to develop the spirit of tolerance but also to cherish moral and spiritual qualities such as modesty, humility, compassion, and, most important, to attain a certain degree of emotional equilibrium.
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I love the sense of how time passes when I'm acting. When you're not aware of the clock ticking, that is always a good sign you're enjoying something.
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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
