Mark Skousen Quotes
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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Home court changes everything. If you have home court, you're expected to win.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Creating things sometimes is difficult.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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The bargain that yields mutual satisfaction is the only one that is apt to be repeated.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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I don't know where Hank Aaron will break Ruth's record but I can tell you one thing - ten years from the day he hits it three million people will say they were there.
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To say that Jimmy Carter does not understand politics or is not a good politician denies the phenomenon by which he got to the White House. He is without question the best politician, when he's working at it, of anybody I have ever seen.
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
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In order to do 'Amores Perros,' I had to skip some time at drama school, so the director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu came up with a great Latin American solution, which was to say I had a tropical disease and had to stay in Mexico for a while. Everyone believed me.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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My family is weird in a very good way because I was always exposed to the arts.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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Creation implies authority in the sense of originator. The possibility of a 'Fall' is implied in a Covenant insofar as the idea of a Covenant implies the possibility of its being violated.
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All fiction becomes autobiographical when the author has true talent.
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I'm really excited to see my vision for the 'British Vogue' team come to fruition.
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If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it.
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The reason that last-ditch political maneuvering has become business as usual in Washington is that the actors involved are drunk on blame and are convinced that the voting public is, too. They count on outrage, thereby spreading numbness. They cherish the prospect of partisan fury, thereby inspiring nonpartisan disgust.
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It is business that generates the jobs, income and taxes that keep a country going.
