Mark Steyn Quotes
In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.
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If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
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At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
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Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don't understand commitment.
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I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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You won't find me in a romantic comedy. Those movies don't speak to me. People don't come to talk to me about those scripts, because they probably think I'm this dark, twisted, miserable person.
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I love soccer. My father is from Argentina and my mother is from El Salvador. I grew up watching Argentinean soccer. I get really worked up watching soccer. It's in my blood.
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Every night we all felt grateful to be there, stunned at the amount of people that are there, and stunned at their reactions. They go crazy; they know every lyric from eight years of age to eighty. It's unbelievable.
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As a father of six kids and as a man who's been transformed by the power of the gospel, I would never just let my kids flounder and just sort of try to figure out their own way through life when I know that I've got the best guide on the planet - God and His word.
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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
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For me, the day job comes first. That's why I call myself a diplomat who writes, not a writer who masquerades as a diplomat. If the day job demands it, I won't write at all. I write in what I call 'the crevices of my day job', and that comes only on weekends.
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I'm a designer, which includes interiors, architecture, fashion, furniture, and lifestyle.
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Jon Tester has been a loyal, loyal, reliable vote for Chuck Schumer.
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In the Western world, countries that were once the crucible of freedom are slipping remorselessly into a thinly disguised serfdom in which an ever higher proportion of your assets are annexed by the state as superlandlord. Big government is where nations go to die - not in Keynes' 'long run,' but sooner than you think.
