Mark Skousen Quotes
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Quotes to Explore
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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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 ever remember a single day of hopelessness. I knew from the history of the labor movement, especially of the black people, that it was an undertaking of great trial. That, live or die, I had to stick with it, and we had to win.
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I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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The purpose of armed struggle is not simply to kill... its purpose is to reach a political goal.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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Because I was a dancer, I started going to auditions for musical theater, which forced me to sing.
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Of all the haunting moments of motherhood, few rank with hearing your own words come out of your daughter's mouth.
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I go to the pub, hang out with my family - that's pretty much it. I also do a lot of sports when I get the chance. I'm actually a pretty mellow guy.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
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In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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In the midst of observing the world and coming to consciousness, I was becoming a writer, and what I wanted to put on the page were the stories of people who looked like me.
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The more you do, the more attrition you experience.
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I'm not sure if it's good to have freedom or not. I'm really confused now.
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Poor Britons, there is some good in them after all - they produced an oyster.
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Anybody can be a role model, anybody can.
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If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.
