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Mark Kurlansky Quotes

I have lost count of how many wars I have actively and largely ineffectively tried to stop.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Stop Lost Count Tried How Many

The White House has a secular, humanistic agenda.

House White White House Agenda

I used to be a calligrapher for weddings and events - that was my side job while I was auditioning. I think handwritten notes are a lost art form. When I booked my first pilot, my dad wrote me a letter that I still have. The idea of someone taking the time to put pen to paper is really special.

Time Art Job Me Think Someone

I love my parents in the way most children would: for having been there at every point in my youth and childhood, ready to pick me up when I fell and support me when I stumbled.

Love Children Childhood Support Me

The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.

Robert D. Kaplan

You Country Looks Map Poor First

If writing really is empathy, then understanding your place in society might actually help you achieve it.

Empathy Writing Society Help You

Nothing beats SoulCycle for dumbing all the way out or re-calibrating a mood in less than an hour, which is reassuring, since I typically wake up in a panic that's candy-coated with a low-grade rage.

Wake Up Mood Nothing Way Rage Out

There are lines of geomagnetic force running through the Earth's crust, and most of the time, these run in opposing directions - forward and backward. In some places, they deviate and will cross each other, and when that happens, you kind of get a geomagnetic mess going in all different directions. I call these vertices.

Time Forward You Earth Kind Run

All emphasis in American prisons is on punishment, retribution, and disparagement, and almost none is on rehabilitation.

American Punishment Almost None

I like the idea of taking three-dimensional objects and making them two-dimensional so that they look like cartoons.

Cornelia Parker

Look Three-Dimensional Idea Cartoons

Plutocrats were the chief beneficiaries of so-called neoliberalism and the suite of political changes it brought beginning in the late 1970s - deregulation, weaker protection for unions, the shareholder value movement, and the subsequent inflation of executive compensation.

Chrystia Freeland

Beginning Value Political Late

It's really great that people are talking so much about me because it means that I'm doing things right.

Great People Me Doing Talking Right

When I look at the people who are the guiding figures in modern dance, I think, 'This does not look to me like the way I want to spend my days.'

Dance People Me Think Look Want

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