Mark Kurlansky Quotes

Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.

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• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

  M.I.A.
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Guitar
  • Times
  • Bass

• You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Time
  • Space
  • Learn

• I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • People
  • Judge
  • Stereotypes

• We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.

  

  Dan Brown
  • Power
  • Creativity
  • Destroy

• As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.

  

  Barry McGee
  • Work
  • Reading
  • Start

• I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Like many kids, I was thrown into recreational soccer in my town, and from there, I grew to love it. Everywhere I went, I carried a soccer ball with me.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Kids
  • Like
  • Grew

• Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Bad
  • Best
  • Beginning

• It is better to be a has-been than a never-was.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Better
  • Than
  • Has-Been

• Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.

  

  E. B. White
  • Men
  • Luck
  • Presence

• I work so I don't need to make rent through my songs, and I think if more people engaged with music without needing it to provide for their welfare, you're not beholden to anyone.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• People think your success is just a matter of having a pretty face. But it's easy to be chewed up and spat out. You've got to stay ahead of the game to be able to stay in it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Up
  • Game

• I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • Stories
  • Old
  • Functioning

• I need to put the right things in my body before and after I work out, so I end every workout with some sort of protein shake to help me get the most out of my training.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Work
  • Help
  • Training

• Music is an extremely powerful force if used properly to uplift people. I believe music should be uplifting and not downgrading... it's a very, very powerful tool.

  

  Gary Wright
  • People
  • Music
  • Believe

• If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Think
  • You
  • Balance

• Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

  

  Tom Holt
  • Death
  • Pain

• The bad guys are not typical; they are not just bad, they are interesting. They might be good or bad.

  

  Jan de Bont
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Interesting

• I was kind of a misfit, and when my mother died, I had to become an adult, something that I never thought I would ever be.

  

  Martha Wainwright
  • Mother

• The truly powerful feed ideology to the masses like fast food while they dine on the most rarified delicacy of all: impunity.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Food
  • Powerful
  • Fast

• Before Birdseye, hardly anybody ate frozen food because it was awful.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • Food
  • Frozen