Mark Steyn Quotes
I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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I'm a dirt person. I trust the dirt. I don't trust diamonds and gold.
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Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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I'm having trouble understanding why there hasn't been further progress on CalgaryNext.
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What I would like to do is make sure every primary school child has a library card, so where parents don't get their children library cards, we'll see if we can get schools to step in and make sure that every child has one.
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I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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I'm driven more by my heart more than anything else, and my head, and sometimes those things are counterintuitive.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I love horror, sci-fi and action, or I wouldn't make these kinds of movies, but those designations are Trojan horses to make these personal comedies.
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I like politics. I like traveling in the United States.
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I never thought I was going to leave the trap. I even told my mother, 'I'm gonna be the trap God.'
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When things are scary, or there's a struggle, I always think, 'How is this going to sound in my biography?' Sometimes I would just be living on protein shakes or the cheapest food that I could afford because I didn't have a lot of money.
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You get talent when you discover the ground of your pain.
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If I look at it, it's about being able to get lost in New York, to explore the city, to have more personal stories about New York, although some could also take place in Paris.
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I always have difficulty with the Greek tragic plays. I think the difficulty one has - which is a serious problem - is the question of belief. Do you believe in the myth that the play expresses? Do you believe in it as myth or as reality? With any play, you have to believe in it as reality. You can't act a myth.
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You cannot seek for the ideal outside the realm of reality.
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I am a great admirer of Professor Hayek. Some of his books are absolutely supreme-'The Constitution of Liberty' and the three volumes on 'Law, Legislation and Liberty'-and would be well read by almost every hon. Member.
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I mean, Iceland is Iceland. It can't do damage to anybody unless you're Icelandic. But the United States can drag down the entire western economy. And I think what we are seeing is simply a reflection of reality. This is not, I'm sorry, but this is not a AAA nation.
