Mark Skousen Quotes

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

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• I'm just a person who forgives and forgets. I have a hard time holding grudges.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Time
  • Person
  • Just

• Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take, but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Life
  • Death
  • Peace

• For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Opportunity
  • Seattle

• Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Good
  • Learn
  • Daily

• I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • People
  • Great
  • Conversation

• The same way that some people can play the piano, I can do plots! They just come!

  

  Francine Pascal
  • People
  • Same
  • Piano

• The Ewoks were definitely a challenge of writing 'The Jedi Doth Return.' After having done so many things with characters who don't speak English, how was I going to make them stand out? Jedi is also rich with emotional material, particularly Darth Vader's transformation from the dark side back to the good.

  

  Ian Doescher
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Done

• My message with 'LazyTown' has always been really simple; I just want to get kids and families moving together.

  

  Magnus Scheving
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Simple

• The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • True
  • Reality
  • Facts

• It's been federal law for over two centuries that the child of an American born abroad is a citizen - a natural born citizen.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • American
  • Law
  • Child

• I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

  

  Ian Rankin
  • Book
  • Think
  • Taken

• In more than thirty years of conducting workshops, no one has ever said to me, 'Warren, I want a divorce – my partner understands me.'

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Partner
  • Divorce

• I would rather talk to the mirror than to the press. There is a part of me that remains within me and the rest goes out to the public.

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Rest
  • Mirror

• There was an Old Man with a beard,Who said, 'It is just as I feared!-Two Owls and a Hen,Four Larks and a Wren,Have all built their nests in my beard!'

  

  Edward Lear

• While the children laughed I was always afraid Of the Smile of the clown So I close my eyes Till I can't see the light And I hide from the sound We're two of a Kind Silence and I We need a chance to talk things over Two of a kind Silence and I

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Children
  • Light
  • Eyes

• Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Men
  • Why
  • Justice

• The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Drawing

• She glimpsed the pink flowers of a magnolia protesting against the black-and-white half-timbered facade of a mock-Tudor side street.

  

  Edward St Aubyn
  • She
  • Black
  • Pink

• No matter how bad things are, they can always be worse. So what if my stroke left me with a speech impediment? Moses had one, and he did all right.

  

  Kirk Douglas
  • Bad

• Good art theory must smell of the studio, although its language should differ from the household talk of painters and sculptors.

  

  Rudolf Arnheim
  • Art
  • Language
  • Painter

• Seeking the Cave is part travelogue, part literary history, and part spiritual journey. James Lenfestey is a lively and entertaining tour guide. Modest, funny, curious, and wide open to the world, he gives us perceptive glimpses of Chinese culture, ancient to contemporary, and into what it means to be a poet, both now and twelve centuries ago. The account of his quest to find Han Shan's cave is a delight from beginning to end.

  

  Chase Twichell
  • Culture
  • Chinese
  • Glimpses

• By developing balance in your life, you will increase your energy, motivation, and your sense of satisfaction. In short, your happiness. Most people are as happy as they choose to be. May you choose to be very happy in 1998! SUCCESS to You . . .

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Life
  • Energy
  • Balance

• I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.

  

  F. Lee Bailey
  • Men
  • Law
  • Guilty

• In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

  

  Mark Skousen