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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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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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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At the weekends, I usually have around 50 kids running around in my back garden. They are all friends of my kids. I know all their names. We have barbecues, put up tents, and play soccer. I love it.
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Hypocrisy needs to be called out in American politics, and the absurd has reached the point where it is just insufferable.
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I think the comic that's gotten me the most feedback is actually the one about the stoplights. Noticing when the stoplights are in sync, or calculating the length of your strides between floor tiles – normal people notice that kind of stuff, but a certain kind of person will do some calculations.
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How many deaf people do you know in real life? Unless they live in a cave, or are 14, which seems to be true for most people in this business, what could I possibly tell them that they don't already know?
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Hell is paved with priests' skulls.
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People are always asking me what my favorite food is. I say, 'Food that tells me where I am.'
