Mark Steyn Quotes

Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

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• Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.

  

  Earl Monroe
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• I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • People
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• I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.

  

  Warren Farrell
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• When your results are good, you are obviously going to have a lot of press. And when you start to falter a little bit, you are going to have some criticism, and there is nothing abnormal in that.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
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• May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.

  

  Zebulon Pike
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• Live theater to me is much more free than the movies or television.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.

  

  Dakota Fanning
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• I believe the collapse of the House of Windsor is tied in with the collapse of the Church of England.

  

  A. N. Wilson
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• I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
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• Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Education
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• The one thing that I've always kind of had, ever since I was a kid, was that I lack a certain degree of self-consciousness, which is alternately good and bad.

  

  K. Flay
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• I always consider Shakespeare like a huge room. I mean, you open the door, and you can go anywhere.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• I have long been interested in exploring and advancing the valuable relationships between the arts and society.

  

  Damian Woetzel
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• We all accept the visual shorthand used throughout comics: if something's farther away, it'll be drawn with a thinner, simpler line, eventually leaving out most visual information and becoming a gesture, a skeletal representation of a thing.

  

  Nate Powell
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• What is good for General Motors is not good for America if General Motors is moving production out of the United States.

  

  Pat Buchanan
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• People will see me at Chelsea the way I am and judge me the way they want to.

  

  Eden Hazard
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• There is a huge crisis of employment in America, in the Western world in general.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
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• A movie set is like a petri dish for neuroses, you know? It's just, like, egos and weird personalities and, more than anything, fear.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• I believe that it should be perfectly lawful to print even things that outrage the pruderies and prejudices of the general, so long as any honest minority, however small, wants to read them. The remedy of the majority is not prohibition, but avoidance.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Believe
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• I didn't grow up watching TV or going to McDonald's or listening to mainstream music. Like, the casting agents are looking elsewhere for the cheerleader role.

  

  Summer Phoenix
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• Even if America entered the war, it is improbable that the Allied armies could invade Europe and overwhelm the Axis powers. But one thing is certain. If England can draw this country into the war, she can shift to our shoulders a large portion of the responsibility for waging it and for paying its cost.

  

  Charles Lindbergh
  • Country
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• Where there is Peace, there is Culture; Where there is Culture, there is Peace.

  

  Nicholas Roerich
  • Culture
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• I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Sweet
  • Now And Then
  • Sweets

• Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.

  

  Mark Steyn
  • Energy
  • Running
  • Contemporary