Mark Kurlansky Quotes
In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.
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Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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The question we all face is what sort of culture we will live in for the rest of our lives and then hand on to the next generation - one that embraces these most basic of values, or one that collapses because of their absence.
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I wanted life to be episodic. I wanted to be a magazine photographer and I was willing to do what it took to become that.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I have programmed myself to be at least 105 years old.
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If I'm daring at all, I guess it would be emotionally. I try to keep things interesting for myself and to do things that challenge me.
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Israeli citizens deserve full-time ministers.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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My best friend is my husband.
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Today's terrorism is not the product of a traditional history of anarchism, nihilism, or fanaticism. It is instead the contemporary partner of globalization.
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Without really analyzing it, I grew up in Massachusetts, so the Salem witch trials were always something that I was around. The average kindergartner probably doesn't know about it, except that in Massachusetts, you do, because they'll take you on field trips to see reenactments and stuff.
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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If they can go out and buy my albums, I can at least make the sacrifice to holler at the few people who call. A lot of times I'm busy so they'll get my voice mail. And if I can speak to them and I have time, I always text back. Because I think that's very important.
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In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.
