Robert Kurson Quotes

For my new book 'Pirate Hunters', I follow John Chatterton and John Mattera, two world-class scuba divers, who teach themselves to think and act as pirates while searching for what would be only the second pirate ship ever found and positively identified.

Robert Kurson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 18, 1963

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I think you miss out on a lot of stuff when you're so protected and isolated.

Jennifer Aniston

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Music is sunshine. Like sunshine, music is a powerful force that can instantly and almost chemically change your entire mood. Music gives us new energy and a stronger sense of purpose.

Michael Franti

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I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

Michelle Branch

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I once saw a forklift lift a crate of forks. And it was way to literal for me.

Mitch Hedberg

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The web as a platform is the most powerful platform we have ever seen.

Mitchell Baker

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To be honest, I'm shocked the University of Washington's sports teams are called the Huskies. Why haven't the Leftists that run this entire state demanded they be renamed the 'Athletes of Size' so as to not fat shame anyone?

Milo Yiannopoulos

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I realized eventually that when I ran out of places to stay and found myself on the D train and in Central Park, I was actually homeless.

Liz Murray

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I hate Whole Foods.

Jonathan Franzen

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My father knew the charming side of my mother, and my mother thought that he was attentive and pleasant and was an architect, which was a respectable profession, but I don't think that they actually got to know one another deeply.

Christopher Durang

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My own experience is use the tools that are out there. Use the digital world. But never lose sight of the need to reach out and talk to other people who don't share your view. Listen to them and see if you can find a way to compromise.

Colin Powell

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Rapine, avarice, expense, This is idolatry; and these we adore; Plain living and high thinking are no more.

William Wordsworth

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The central paradox of the machines that have made our lives so much brighter, quicker, longer and healthier is that they cannot teach us how to make the best use of them; the information revolution came without an instruction manual.

Pico Iyer

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