Mark Skousen Quotes
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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I think 4 percent growth is a good goal. And I think the fact that we have become used to an economy that sort of putt putts along between 1 and 2 percent is sort of tragic.
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There are a lot of films that are drug dramas, and we didn't want to tell Scarface again.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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But when I played Woodstock, I'll never forget that moment looking out over the hundreds of thousands of people, the sea of humanity, seeing all those people united in such a unique way. It just touched me in a way that I'll never forget.
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My father had very little formal education.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company, willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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I would like to thank my colleagues for voting a Social Democrat prime minister and to assure them I will vote a liberal president, as well.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.
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We all love to be admired and given compliments, but I don't really keep track.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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Each man is questioned by life; and he can only answer to life by answering for his own life; to life he can only respond by being responsible.
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I like the idea of doing something outside my comfort zone.
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I try to encourage people to really love what they do, like when it's about being a part of this business, love what you do because it's not going to always be defined by who you are. It's going to be a lot of times your good name walks in the door before you do.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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Some get a kick from cocaine. I'm sure that if I took even one sniff That would bore me terrifically, too, Yet, I get a kick out of you.
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
