Mark Steyn Quotes
America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
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Before the Internet, before BBSes and Fidonet and Usenet and LiveJournal and blogs and Facebook and Twitter, before the World Wide Web and hot-and-cold-online-everything, science fiction fandom had a long-lived, robust, well-debugged technology of social networking and virtual community.
Patrick Nielsen Hayden
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I'm not a big fan of talking about dying. And then I make a movie where I kill everybody.
Abel Ferrara
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
D. B. Sweeney
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
Valorie Curry
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Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.
Adam McKay
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It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman. Never in history have women had more freedom of choice in regard to dress, behavior, career, and sexual orientation.
Camille Paglia
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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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We know that reading to children is a crucial step. From the beginning, babies who are read to are exposed to the cadence of language, and school-age children who read at home for 15 minutes a day are exposed to millions of words.
Randi Weingarten
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
Sam Smith
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If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
Maggie Smith
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Donald Trump did denounce David Duke's support.
Jack Kingston
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This story's gonna grab people. It's about this guy, he's crazy about this girl, but he likes to wear dresses. Should he tell her? Should he not tell her? He's torn, Georgie. This is drama.
Ed Wood
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It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.
Kate Atkinson
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I'm like a kid in a sweet shop every day. It's slightly cringey how much fun I have.
Fergus Henderson
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For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
Nathan Deal
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Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.
Ian Mckellen
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
Edmund Hillary
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Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Bill James
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
Clare Boothe Luce
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It has always been my belief that people are remembered for the sum of their accomplishments but defined by their singular failure.
Chuck Klosterman
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Dear God, sorry to disturb you, but... I feel that I should be heard loud and clear. We all need a big reduction in amount of tears And all the people that you made in your image, See them fighting in the street 'Cause they can't make opinions meet about God, I can't believe in you.
Andy Partridge
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Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced.
Ned Rorem
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America is now a land that rewards failure - at the personal, corporate, and state level.
Mark Steyn