Mark Steyn Quotes
The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
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I've done nothing but show up and fight, go to work inside the Octagon, outside the Octagon, and do things right. But people want to talk about me and discredit me.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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Nature is the incarnation of thought. The world is the mind precipitated.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Martin Luther King was a leader for all Americans on our own professed values.
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I wouldn't ever pose naked... I'm fine to do bikinis and certainly lingerie if I feel it's done tastefully... cute like Victoria's Secret, but nothing like raunchy or overly sexual.
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My style's not for everyone - I'm an extremist.
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One of the first serious attempts I made to write a novel was when I was in Grade 6 and I had read 'Matilda.' I wrote my own version and my teacher had it bound and permitted me to read it to the class - cementing my love of reading, writing and Roald Dahl!
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I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
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I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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I used to say, 'There is a God-shaped hole in me.' For a long time I stressed the absence, the hole. Now I find it is the shape which has become more important.
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I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
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There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.
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I believe that the only people who really, truly benefit from any of the policies of Republicans are the wealthy. I'm in that 1 percent tax bracket, but I'm not a man of wealth.
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A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
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I want to be an arena act. There's so many steps to take to get there, and it's so easy to get lost and cocky. I just take small steps each day.
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I feel like a lot of people would quite easily stab you in the back once they get what they want. And you see that in people.
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Music and other forms of art are by far the most effective kind of social-work that exists. A single, nameless one-hit wonder brings more comfort to the world than almost any single psychologist can hope to in a lifetime
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It was part of your religion to hate the British.
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There is a shortage of teachers but the January 2001 schools census showed that teacher numbers were at their highest level than at any time since 1984 - and 11,000 higher than 1997.
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Now I'm being blamed not only for anorexia but for lung cancer. - On being a social smoker.
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The trouble with the social-democratic state is that, when government does too much, nobody else does much of anything.
