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.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Life
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• No person, not even a congressman, is above the law.

  

  Dana Boente
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• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  

  Lady Gaga
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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.

  

  Patrick Wang
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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.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
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• I am an artist who works with Lego.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
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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.

  

  Sakshi Tanwar
  • Up
  • Work
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• Belief is thought at rest.

  

  Larry Harvey
  • Rest
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• Most geniuses are weird.

  

  T-Pain
  • Weird
  • Most
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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.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
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• You can be aware of the passing of time without being nostalgic.

  

  Ira Sachs
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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.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Today
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• You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Life
  • Death
  • You

• There are always lessons that can be learned from another manufacturer. You can learn from their successes and from their mistakes also. But you cannot replicate; you can only learn.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • You
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• When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

  

  Kate Hudson
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• Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
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• You can always turn a bad kisser into a good one.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• There was a brief period of time when I was very young where I thought I wanted to be a veterinarian - largely because I liked cats - but then somebody told me I would have to cut animals open, and that was the end of that.

  

  Marie Brennan
  • Time
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• Many traditions date the existence of angels and demons from a remote period before the creation of the world, but some connect the fall of Satan and his host with the creation of man.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • World
  • Man
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• Where there is a sufficient social movement of self-reliant communities, there can be political change. There must be political change.

  

  Jerry Brown
  • Political

• 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.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • World
  • Political