Mark Steyn Quotes
The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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The promotion of family continuity and stability is a legitimate state interest.
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I stand for freedom of expression, doing what you believe in, and going after your dreams.
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Any deal that allows Iran to enrich uranium, which allows them to ultimately break out within a few months with a nuclear weapon, is a disaster for the world.
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My biggest hobby is airsoft, which is similar to paintball. Essentially, it's military simulation, but the guns shoot plastic BBs. My friends and I go out in the woods or the desert and play all day long!
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I've had a few ditty hits.
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I feel like I'm married to what I do, to the streets. And I feel like when the streets are mad, it's serious.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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You are not a problem that needs solving.
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It was helpful to have the American troops there in great strength. They knew there'd be consequences if they didn't move back. Now, there has been some removal of the foreign forces.
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I became a Communist because I fell in love with a man who was a Red and entered the Army to take care of the Fascists, and I knew it would please him if I became one.
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When I was a kid you always heard about the Israeli army and you always heard about this tiny little country and how everyone around them wants them gone, and every time somebody comes after them they take care of business. And so as a Jewish kid you were proud of that.
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My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.
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The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.
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(Insanity) is not hubris, not pride; it is inflation of the ego to its ultimate - confusion between him who worships and that which is worshipped. Man has not eaten God; God has eaten man.
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The story of the Western world since 1945 is that, invited to choose between freedom and government 'security,' large numbers of people vote to dump freedom every time - the freedom to make your own decisions about health care, education, property rights, and a ton of other stuff.
