Mark Skousen Quotes
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I learned a lesson that I don't ever want to be a CEO.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It's gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it's natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it's how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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My mother was against me being an artist. She just wanted me to marry a rich man.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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I was so keen to become a comedian that actually doing the comedy itself almost came second.
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Where radio is different than fiction is that even mediocre fiction needs purpose, a driving question.
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There are grave misgivings that the discussion on ecology may be designed to distract attention from the problems of war and poverty.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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It's a very Southern thing to be interested in dark stuff.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Prison has humbled me in a lot of ways, because when you go to prison, I became 11 R 2024 you know, I wasn't Ja Rule the superstar. I wasn't any of that. I was just a regular inmate.
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I want to make sure that that future that we're creating is one that is the best it can be for people around the world, and also one that includes the full range of our talent and our skills - and, you know, gender and ethnicity, geography - to solving the world's problems.
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If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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You have to be realistic. I'd love to be more famous, have lots of people supporting me, people knowing my name, but I need a tennis racket or a golf club or to play football. Being a female, I don't stand a chance.
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I love that feeling of just finishing a workout and knowing I'm taking care of my body. It is such a good feeling.
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I could see when I was filming '21' that it was going to go a direction I wasn't comfortable with it going.
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We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
