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.
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I loved the world of imagination.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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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!
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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.
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I don't think that any political party should claim Jesus as being a part of a political party.
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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.
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Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
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My best friend is my husband.
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I believe it's important that we use names of endearment that reflect a special feeling for the individual involved.
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The hardest part of acting is not when I'm acting, It's when I'm not.
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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.
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As a writer, the ideal job is the one that allows you time and mental space away from it. Teaching seemed to me like the obvious choice - those summers off, you know - but my experience may serve as a cautionary tale.
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Since the time of St. Jerome, it was mandatory for any kind of scholar or thinker to spend time out in the desert in solitude. It's no coincidence that the desert has been a major part of the visionary or mystical experience from the beginning of time.
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People are asking us, 'Why have you gone country?' And we say, 'Man, we were born country.' They gave us the tag 'Southern rock' years ago as a way of not saying country.
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[Making people laugh] was a secret dream I kept and I didn't tell anybody about it until I was about 18.
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The inventors we remember didn't invent anything. They're the people who took somebody else's invention and made it commercially viable.
