Mark Kurlansky Quotes

People have a lot of strange relationships with food. There's a lot more going on there than just, 'Oh, these crullers remind me of my childhood.' We have a darker and more complex relationship to food.

Mark Kurlansky

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The game is not lost - or won - until the last bell goes.

John Curtin

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For while the subjects of poetry are few and recurrent, the moods of man are infinitely various and unstable. It is the same in all arts.

John Drinkwater

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I love opportunities to do something I'm not supposed to be able to do. Hell, that's my career.

Andrew Whitworth

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Many exercise forms - aerobic, yoga, weights, walking and more - have been shown to benefit mood.

Andrew Weil

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The corner of the 'food media' that I think is troublesome to me is the shows on TV that don't really have a point or don't have a lesson to be learned. If you don't have a point, or if there's not some part of it that is meaningful and can change someone's life, in my old age, I'm just not into it.

Andrew Zimmern

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You don't mess with Oprah. She has enough money in her left pocket to have me killed.

Jeff Ross

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There are certainly days that we can convince ourselves in Washington that everybody's talking about one thing, and then I'll go home to my district and realize that everybody's actually talking about something different.

John Sarbanes

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I know I am not the worst-dressed person.

Trinny Woodall

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There are many designers who have much greater talent as a designer than I do, but they may not have my drive, they may not work as hard, they may not have the focus, the desire... You have to have a talent because, at the end of the day, if the pants you design don't make someone's butt look great, they're not going to buy them.

Tom Ford

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It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.

Livy

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The camera can photograph thought.

Dirk Bogarde

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A painting is a symbol for the universe. Inside it, each piece relates to the other. Each piece is only answerable to the rest of that little world. So, probably in the total universe, there is that kind of total harmony, but we get only little tastes of it.

Corita Kent

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