Mark Kurlansky Quotes
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.Mark Kurlansky
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I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore -
I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
Harland Williams -
My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!
Adam Garcia -
I've always really been interested in the Pygmalion myth and both what it has to say about creativity and what it has to say about relationships between men and women.
Zoe Kazan -
I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
Vicky Hartzler -
I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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When it comes to power, God Himself is the power. God often uses foolish things to confound the wise. That is why people like me will ever be grateful to God. In terms of knowledge, education and name, I am nowhere - a neglected stone.
T. B. Joshua -
I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
Gavrilo Princip -
The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
Eric Lynn Wright -
On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.
Vince Cable -
War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
Mao Zedong -
After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
Fatima Sana Shaikh
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My best friend is my husband.
Samantha Bond -
I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
Zig Ziglar -
The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
Dakota Goyo -
I've been a video game guy since I was eight years old and got my first Nintendo. I've been addicted to video games ever since.
A.J. Styles -
If you make it sound too much like a synth, it will just sound like a guitar part played on a synth.
Daisy Berkowitz -
Nobody ever calls me a soccer-playing writer, even though I play soccer and it's part of who I am.
Rabih Alameddine
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If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer.
Barack Obama -
I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
Jess Row -
As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.
Pierre Corneille -
At least, in this situation, I know my chances of coming back could be slim because of the young talent the Yankees do have.
Johnny Damon -
I have met too many people who are looking for work, worrying about their mortgage, uncertain about their health insurance, and doubting that things will get any better anytime soon. Not just concerned about the present, many of us are doubting the future.
Brad Schneider -
The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
Mark Kurlansky