Mark Kurlansky Quotes
There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.

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The single most powerful element of youth is our inability to know what's impossible.
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EVOO is extra-virgin olive oil. I first coined 'EVOO' on my cooking show because saying 'extra virgin olive oil' over and over was wordy, and I'm an impatient girl - that's why I make 30-minute meals!
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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I hate competition.
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The world does not look to us in the Arab world out of a healthy desire for knowledge.
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I can't even be around children. It's a problem. My ovaries start screaming.
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Well, after the divorce, I went home and turned all the lights on!
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I had to make different kinds of music for everybody but still keep it classic T-Pain at the same time.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken.
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I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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I think that there should be options available, quite early on, that if someone is recognised as a disruptive child, for them to be trained vocationally. Maybe if those kids were given the option to learn how to contribute to society on a practical level they wouldn't get into trouble.
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Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.
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I think that Van Gogh is really the ultimate crazy artist that we all think of.
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Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an act of charity. And further, I believe it to be - as a type - the greatest economic charity of all.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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The Internet is one of the most revolutionary technologies the world has ever known. It has given us an entire universe of information in our pockets.
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It struck me while I was sitting here; everything changes but the sea.
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There's a lot about the early history of salt that isn't known, including who first used it and when or how it was discovered that it preserved food. We were sort of handed, in history, this world where everyone knew about salt. And it's not clear exactly how that developed.