Mark Steyn Quotes
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I love making films, and as long as I love the subject, I just have a crazy amount of passion and energy for the project.
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The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.
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I stayed away from mathematics not so much because I knew it would be hard work as because of the amount of time I knew it would take, hours spent in a field where I was not a natural.
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I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
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When you start to see another human being as less than you, it's a danger.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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I went to Disney World for the first time, and I got an ice cream cone. The kid at the booth recognized me and started tweeting... It was the first time in my life someone handed me ice cream for acting.
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I realized that I've had a really rocky relationship with food - it has not been a gauzy, beautiful summer of ripe melons and perfectly buttered toast.
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It doesn't always make sense to have a token on the blockchain that is both useful and represents ownership - it has to be something where there's a network effect. That's why I cite Facebook as an example of what could be disrupted more so than, say, Amazon - which is bit more centralized and is not exactly a network of users in the same way.
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At its core, all authentic growth depends on more customers wanting more of what your company offers. Any other drivers - pricing gimmicks, heroic marketing efforts, forced acquisitions - are ultimately destructive.
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When you really need help, people will respond. Sincerity means dropping the image facade and showing a willingness to be vulnerable. Tell it the way it is, lumps and all. Don't worry if your presentation isn't perfect; ask from your heart. Keep it simple, and people will open up to you.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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I've gone from the most trusted man in America to one of the most debated.
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I think the acquisition of consumers might be on the verge of being mapped. The battlefield is going to be retention and lifetime value.
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The imperturbability of the Church resides in her ability to harmonize the unconditional preservation of eternal truths with an unmatchable elasticity of adjustment to the circumstances and challenges of changing times.
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Business success is less a function of grandiose predictions than it is a result of being able to respond rapidly to real changes as they occur.
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The mature Anthropocene begins when we acquire the ability to live sustainably and become a lasting presence on this world.
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured. You can never tell how a policy has been reached just by looking at the end result. Some people who have achieved a huge amount do not come across as impressive when you speak to them.
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As a director, your work is finished only when it's on the screen. But I will always be an actor who occasionally directs. And no, I have no interest in directing myself. I wouldn't be able to concentrate on both jobs at once.
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You don’t get to be a senior investigating officer unless you have a degree in scepticism, an MA in distrust and your CV lists suspicious bastard under your hobbies.
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It is one of the truisms of politics that a conservative is often enough a former liberal who has been 'mugged by reality.'
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Multiculturalism is a unicultural phenomenon.
