Mark Kurlansky Quotes
It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.
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I think the media has been in denial just like the party regulars have been in denial. They just don't understand that the government that we have today is not what the people want as a government.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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Why do I always choose the shopping cart with the squeaky wheel? Is it my bad luck, or are all the carts dysfunctional?
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I'd like to do a comedy, actually. I think it would be great to do a sitcom or something like that. I'm pretty much open to anything.
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The modern era of continuity planning began under President Ronald Reagan.
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In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.
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All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.
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My parents divorced when I was 3 years old. They had a lounge act in Las Vegas, where I was born. The band broke up and the marriage dissolved, and my mother, my sister and I moved to Southern California. And I didn't see my dad a lot growing up; he was on the road a lot. I'd see him every couple years.
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I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
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When my father would come home from his work at the Senate and talk about the things he could talk about - because a lot of his work was top secret - he would always tell me these stories and laugh. As deadly serious as his work was, he would laugh at the absurdity of it all.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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I was training more learning how to scuba dive which I'd never done which was really, really, really cool.
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It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.
