Mark Kurlansky Quotes
I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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I don't believe any color in particular can bring good luck. I think it's just a coincidence that I was introduced in white costumes. That said, the color is very soothing. So, my house is all white.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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I'll never be, like, sippy cup country, or write about everything I do around the house.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
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The airplane stays up because it doesn't have the time to fall.
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Israel's master strategy needs to be moving toward a regional arrangement that will enable a full normalization of relations with the Arab states and the establishment of a demilitarized Palestinian state alongside the State of Israel.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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You know, when the cost of capital goes down, when credit becomes cheap, people start taking greater and greater risks.
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I tend to listen to country music more than Cuban music.
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Let me tell you, there's very few places where I don't have an agenda.
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I'm a natural. That's why I make the big bucks.
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I was not born into a rich family or a family of government officials.
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The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.
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I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.
