Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I grew up in a neighbourhood where there was a lot of fighting. It's what boys did during school, during recess, after school. And I was a fairly large kid. So everyone wanted to see if they could take me on.

Mark Kurlansky

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SchoolMeFightingKidEveryoneSee

I do wish, when I was younger, that I knew that I was gay. It would have made things a lot clearer for me. Really. Looking back on it, it was so obvious, but it never really dawned on me. Socially, I felt like I didn't know how to be and who to be. If I had known back then, it would have given me more self-confidence.

Megan Rapinoe

MeLooking BackLookingWishGay

The fact that God is for me, that is huge for me when I am thinking about fighting my own sins, because my art tells me that God is against you.

Trip Lee

GodArtI AmMeThinkingFighting

In the modern world, the anxious temperament does offer certain benefits: caution, introspection, the capacity to work alone. These can be adaptive qualities.

Robin Marantz Henig

WorkAloneWorldModernCaution

When I was growing up in the Forties and Fifties, you could hide your children from the difficulties of life, but today you can't separate children's contact with the adult world today.

Michael Morpurgo

LifeTodayChildrenGrowing UpWorld

I want y'all to know that all of the music I make is for the people that truly appreciate it and care about it.

Logic

MusicPeopleCareAppreciateKnow

I don't run outside, honestly. Sometimes I go out around my house, but mainly it's the stupid treadmill. I wish I had a better answer, but I'm very businesslike about my runs.

Drew Carey

StupidBetterWishHouseGoRun

I'm not the type of person to eat big hunks of meat. I think people are starting to realize that great things come in small batches.

April Bloomfield

GreatPeopleSmallThinkPersonEat

I don't believe in planning for things. I just want them to fall in place, unfold as they like. I never design things. I want films to choose me; I don't choose films.

Pawan Kalyan

MeBelievePlanningDesignChoose

I was raised around music.

Scott Porter

MusicI Was RaisedRaisedAround

Corporate communications will become a high-tech art, just as political communication is for Obama.

Tina Brown

CommunicationArtPoliticalBecome

My biggest enemy has been my surgeries.

Tito Ortiz

EnemyBeenBiggest

The problem with relying on nostalgia for commentary is that people only remember the good things.

Richie Benaud

GoodPeopleGood ThingsProblemOnly

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