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Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I read pretty well in French and Spanish. I don't want to read a book written in French or Spanish in translation.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Book Want Pretty Well Translation

I like to see a video through a computer or through a phone to make sure it looks good at its worst. I hate when you perfect something for the ideal way of consuming things, and then when you see it on YouTube, it looks like crap.

Melina Matsoukas

Good Hate You Perfect Phone Looks

In my opinion, if we have not achieved peace, it is because people forget its most fundamental aspect. Before we talk about peace among nations, we must settle our peace with God.

God Peace People Opinion Forget

I exist in a state of almost perpetual hysteria.

Exist Almost State Hysteria

I think we have to work with Hollywood. We have to work in the system and change it.

Roger Ross Williams

Work Change Think Hollywood System

Your best creative assets do not occur unless you do a mental shift. You have to be in a positive frame of mind because inspiration is fleeting. I walk to work for inspiration and to clear my mind.

Positive Work Best Walk Creative

We'll have, by the end of 2013, 30 local language editions of Forbes, many of those are pioneers in the markets they serve with Forbes.com. We launched recently in Thailand and Vietnam, and we're in China and Korea and all around Latin America.

End Language America China Serve

There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them.

Family Women Business Music Children

I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

Today Feel True I Feel Like Working

One thing I think celebrities shy away from is exposing the reality that we're all the same. Somebody's not more important because they have a Bentley or a big house or a famous boyfriend or plastic surgery - we're all the same.

Think Reality Famous House Important

It's all about the fruit. A crumble should maintain the integrity of the fruit.

Integrity Fruit Maintain Should

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Music Architecture Writing Dancing

The gasoline tax is a user fee, but it does not fill enough of the need, and you want cars to be more efficient.

Enough You Tax Want More Need

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