Mark Steyn Quotes
For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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In my opinion, all relationships between people have some sort of violence, and it is central.
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Many of us came away from our youth thinking that the story of the Revolution was that the Americans were patriots fighting the oppressive British. It was kind of good versus evil, liberty versus tyranny. When you get into it, you find that it was much more complicated.
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I've had Irish skin from the time I was a young girl.
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Working with people from all walks of life, from full-time moms to CEOs at large companies, I've distilled many universal truths about success. There's a secret I've learned that works quite well at helping you to achieve what you want: Decide what you want.
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With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.
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I spent years commuting into London when I was working as a temp, and I hated the monotony of it.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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We are all in this together. We will all make it or none of us will make it. If everyone cleans up their act except one big ole country, it isn't going to work.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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He'll call that trickle-down. I call it Niagara Falls.
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He is far too intelligent to become really cerebral.
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When I really started liking music was when I could play some of it myself, and after a couple of years of playing folk music, I kinda rediscovered those hits that were on the radio all the time when I was a kid.
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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As a kid, I was obsessed with space. Well, I was obsessed with nuclear science too, to a point, but before that, I was obsessed with space, and I was really excited about, you know, being an astronaut and designing rockets, which was something that was always exciting to me.
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I had novels to write, so I wrote them.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.
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I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
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Keeping the truth from the people closest to you is how you'll survive, and how you'll protect them if anything ever goes wrong.
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I love baseball. The game allowed me the influence to impact kids in a positive way. This gives me a chance to talk to some social issues.
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I do think there's no substitute for really hard work. But I think the thing that launched my career at AT&T, I had a pretty tragic thing happen in my family. My sister died, and I was leading a big team at the time, and I had to take time off.
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For Americans, the quickest way to understand modern Britain is to look at what LBJ's Great Society did to the black family and imagine it applied to the general population.
