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Mark Kurlansky Quotes

By modernizing the process of food preservation, Birdseye nationalized and then internationalized food distribution... facilitated urban living and helped to take people away from the farms... and greatly contributed to the development of industrial-scale agriculture.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Food People Process Agriculture Take

I think trials are inherently dramatic and interesting and are always going to be part of the news.

Think Interesting News Trials Always

The question is always 'What is the role of a labor movement?' How much is about collective bargaining, how much is about social change for all workers?

Change Social Change Labor Movement

I don't follow anything that's said about him much, but the Uwe Boll that I know is just a really cool guy. He's just a really quiet, kind and passionate filmmaker who really believes in what he's doing. Like any director that an actor wants to work with, you want a director who's passionate and believes in the work that he's doing.

Work Cool Doing You Quiet Know

There is a line in which populism can cross over into demagoguery. Demagoguery is the crossover where populism becomes a bad thing, and people make things up, and they assign responsibilities that aren't fair and justified, and scapegoat communities. And then it becomes a very bad thing.

Lloyd Blankfein

People Bad Fair Over Line Up

In my head, at least, the business of spinning stories has no closing time. Twists in my characters' lives, glimpses of their secrets, obstacles to their dreams... all arrive unbidden when I'm getting cash at the ATM, walking my son to camp, singing a hymn at a wedding.

Dreams Business Son Time Singing

When I was doing 'Spring Awakening' the first couple of years I was living in New York, I was gay, and I was living with my 'roommate,' who was my boyfriend but was my roommate to everyone else.

New York Spring Doing Gay Living

I love traveling all over the world; but it's true: there's nothing like home.

Love Home World True Nothing Over

I don't have maids or servants, and my husband and I love waking up early and going to the 24-hour supermarket when there is nobody else there.

Love Husband Early Nobody Up Going

I never assumed that I would be able to play in a main draw so quickly after Juniors. I've been having really good results. It really is a privilege. I'm very happy for the opportunity.

Denis Shapovalov

Good Opportunity Happy Results Play

I really have always wanted to be a parent, and when I hit 36 and had just ended a relationship, I remember thinking how much I still wanted it. But I thought I'd adopt.

Courtney Thorne-Smith

Relationship Thinking Thought Parent

The law does not pretend to punish everything that is dishonest. That would seriously interfere with business.

Clarence Darrow

Business Law Seriously Everything

Shy is the oyster, fervent is the clam, peaceful is the ocean floor rocked by the sands of time.

Time Ocean Peaceful Shy Oyster

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