Mark Skousen Quotes
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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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'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.
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I like feeling fresh and having really dewy skin. I like feeling moisturized and having a good brow.
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Dune is the bestselling science fiction book of all time. It's something you really need to read in your lifetime. If you're going to read The Lord of the Rings, which everyone should, then you have to read Dune, too.
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We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.
