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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There was a time I thought about being a professional guide. I'm a big outdoorsman, but the acting thing has always been there - always something I wanted to do.
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I've also worked hard portraying an Ireland which is fast disappearing. Ireland was a very depressed and difficult place in the 1980s, and I've tried to include that in the script. I worked really hard to find the heart of the book.
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My father moved out to Park City in in the mid-'70s and lived in a Winnebago behind a hippie joint called Utah Coal & Lumber that was one of only two or three restaurants at that time. Park City was a sleepy little mining town, with not a condo in sight.
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If the American people really come to a settled belief that Bush lied us into war, his presidency will be over.
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Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'
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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.
