Mark Steyn Quotes
In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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You have got to pay attention, you have got to study and you have to do your homework. You have to score higher than everybody else. Otherwise, there is always somebody there waiting to take your place.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I believe a lot in monogamy, let me tell you.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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Movies are usually difficult, often insane, constantly challenging and always strangely amusing to make.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Life is so fast these days, and we're exposed to so much information. Television makes us a witness to such misery.
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Before, I could meet and greet all my fans one by one, but now, it's hard to remember all of their names. And my actions can sometimes cause misunderstandings. If I bow to one side, I've heard people from the other side ask why I didn't bow there.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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It will be disastrous when a leader or manager shows up with one attitude one day and treats people with a different attitude the next day.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Being Jewish is a big part of my artistic sensibility and my humor... I think it gives me a certain take on the world on a literary level.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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I wrote each book in thirty-five days flat - just to get the darned thing finished.
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I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them.
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In 1897, troops from the greatest empire the world had ever seen marched down London’s mall for Queen Victoria’s diamond jubilee. Seventy years later, Britain had government health care, a government-owned car industry, massive government housing, and it was a shriveled high-unemployment socialist basket-case living off the dwindling cultural capital of its glorious past. In 1945, America emerged from the Second World War as the preeminent power on earth. Seventy years later . . . Let’s not go there.
