Mark Steyn Quotes
As a famous Arnold Toynbee quote puts it, 'Civilizations die from suicide, not murder', as can be seen throughout much of the Western world right now. The progressive agenda - lavish social welfare, abortion, agnosticism, multiculturalism - is collectively the real suicide bomb.
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I spend an extraordinary amount of time in my car, so I can justify the expense. That's the only extravagance in my life - it's my car.
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The use of slave women as day workers naturally broke up or made impossible the normal Negro home, and this and the slave code led to a development of which the South was really ashamed and which it often denied, and yet perfectly evident: the raising of slaves in the Border slave states for systematic sale on the commercialized cotton plantations.
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The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.
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Americans are really obsessed with their teeth being white and straight, aren't they? I saw this little girl the other day with one of those whole head braces. Elastic all the way around! How traumatizing for a child to have to wear one of those! You look like a monster.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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Our approach to banking is very different from the traditional banks or even some of the new banks. We do not necessarily go out and write single-cheque, large-ticket loans.
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I can go back to poverty if a situation comes. I have sailed through the worst days of my life, and I am prepared for any crisis.
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I don't care whether you use natural gas, ethanol, the battery. You can use anything, just so it's American.
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Only by the sweat of my own brow. I am a totally working man.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I don't think that when I'm acting I feel like I lose myself to it, but that sense of losing, that sense of discomfort, well, I guess maybe that comes a bit! It's about redefining what 'uncomfortable' means for you.
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I would love to go to Ladakh - there are beautiful monasteries there and because I am from Himachal. I would love to go to Paris. I haven't been to New York, which I have heard a lot about. And, I would love to go to Kanyakumari. I think that would be interesting!
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Do you love me because I'm beautiful, or am I beautiful because you love me?
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Dream and you shall become.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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That's the value of a college education... I don't know anywhere in the world where you can make an investment and make that kind of return.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.
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It was implicitly supposed that every living thing was distinctively plant or animal; that there were real and profound differences between the two, if only they could be seized.
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I think the National Football League needs a new union. The heavyweights of this union are not heavyweights enough.
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As a famous Arnold Toynbee quote puts it, 'Civilizations die from suicide, not murder', as can be seen throughout much of the Western world right now. The progressive agenda - lavish social welfare, abortion, agnosticism, multiculturalism - is collectively the real suicide bomb.
