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Mark Kurlansky Quotes

When I was 13 or 14, I took this speed-reading course. A lot of the things you do in speed reading you shouldn't do to a good author, but I've been reading really fast ever since.

Mark Kurlansky

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: american
Birth: December 7, 1948

Topics

Good Reading Speed You Fast Things

In my hometown there is a pub named after me - The Frome Flyer on Jenson Avenue. How cool is that?!

Jenson Button

Me Cool Hometown Pub How After

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Max Beerbohm

Good Better Matter Nonsense Things

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

Michael Chiklis

Work Year Days Workaholic Could

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

Steven Lopez

Moment Me Winning Kind Become Away

We do prioritize addressing MDR-TB. We have done that for more than 20 years; that's why we've been able to drastically reduce U.S. cases of MDR-TB.

Tom Frieden

Done Why More Years Prioritize Been

I speak fluent Kosovan.

Rita Ora

Speak Fluent

One of the things I try to work with white people on is letting go of our criteria about how people of color give us feedback. We have to build our stamina to just be humble and bear witness to the pain we've caused.

Robin DiAngelo

Work Humble Pain People Color White

For me, it's always more interesting to look at things when you don't really have a horse in the race, so to speak.

Jonathan Levine

Me Speak Interesting Horse You Look

Sometimes it's tougher against bad teams because you can't really get a read on them.

Draymond Green

You Bad Sometimes Against Get Read

Reagan was a pure liberation, free-and-fair election American.

Douglas Brinkley

American Election Pure Liberation

It's always a little more difficult after taking a few years off, which we did from 2004 through 2008. It's more difficult to get the machine in gear again, but when you become used to it, then it becomes easier.

Chris Squire

You Become More Difficult Always

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

Bryant H. McGill

Imagination World Measure Human Up