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.
Quotes to Explore
-
If something is mine, then I want to keep it.
-
At the end of the day, every decision I make about my music is about creating a collective.
-
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.
-
While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
-
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.
-
You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
-
I feel like an alien. I feel people don't like me. People behaved strangely after 'Rockstar.'
-
I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
-
Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
-
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.
-
I don't know anyone who's suffered lung cancer.
-
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
-
If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.
-
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.
-
The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
-
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.
-
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.
-
It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
-
I can say with absolute certainty I do not cheat. I am not a magician.
-
I like music because... it makes me feel the most free I've ever felt in my entire life and gives me the freedom to do anything without much consequence.
-
I meditate. Just counting my breath. Before I do anything, really.
-
A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time; having a miserable time, even better.
-
If you are a woman living, you've been done wrong by a man.
-
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.
