Mark Kurlansky Quotes
Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.

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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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In Washington, the translation of E Pluribus Unum has been lost. The belief that we are one nation - united in purpose - caring about and for one another is no longer the practice.
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I am an artist who works with Lego.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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No human being will ever know the Truth, for even if they happen to say it by chance, they would not even known they had done so.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake. To preserve civilisation, we must deal scientifically with the brute element, using only genuine biological principles.
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You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.
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Today, I marvel at the vegan foods in the supermarket, at the cruelty-free clothing choices in stores, and at the fantastic alternatives to dissection in schools, the modern ways to test medicines without killing rabbits and beagles, the many forms of entertainment involving purely human performers.
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In so many musicals today, the story is moved forward by a song. I don't think we're gonna try to do that.
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I find it amoral if you're making a movie where the problem is solved with a guy standing in the back of pickup truck firing a machine at the bad guys. The morality of it is questionable because the repercussions of violence are incredibly far-reaching.
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Quite honestly, one of the unavoidable considerations in going exclusive with any company is being put on a company's medical insurance program.
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It would never be both Michael and myself running because as a mother ... I would never put my children through this.
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Religion is a big problem in Israel and the Arab world, but again, the problem isn't religion but political leaders who want to use the religion.