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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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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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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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'm pretty much a straight guy on 'The Office.' We can't all be crazies. You need some balance.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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There's nothing that can replace quality programs in a non-profit.
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Legislatures represent people, not acres or trees.
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Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
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My first and only experience in baseball, the coach signed me up; he didn't tell me there's a thing called the curveball. I didn't know that. So the ball's coming at me and I start backing out, and then it broke inside. And the umpire says, 'Strike one!' And I'm saying, 'How is that a strike? It almost hit me!'
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In magic, it takes two or three years for me to create a 5-minute illusion for me to get it to the level I want.
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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
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I was a geek in high school.
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Banking technology has made it simple and efficient to invest in good causes.
