Mark Steyn Quotes
Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.
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People more than ever since I can remember are concerned about being out of step and out of line with their political party and won't cross over. There is nobody, man or woman, who wants to be left out, and people are fearful of that. People are fearful of their leadership as well.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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I have mad luck. I'm super-good at games like backgammon or anything that requires rolling dice.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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The true Tarot is symbolism; it speaks no other language and offers no other signs.
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When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, there's still this sense that it's the center of the universe. And I think that's a really dangerous, limiting mindset.
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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Whether it's backing up or starting, I have the confidence to go out there and do good, so I'm gonna play my role.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Madeleine Albright introduced herself to me. I talked to Henry Kissinger and Barbara Walters. And I asked Peter Jennings to write a note of encouragement to my son, Logan, a news anchor at the ABC affiliate in Palm Springs.
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I don't know whether I want to improve religion or not. I prefer to get rid of it.
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Men are irrelevant.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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Agreements are always the product of time and place.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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Iran can never get a nuclear weapon, and it never will as long as I have anything to say about it.
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That man has offered me unsolicited advice for six years, all of it bad!
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Doubt is part of all religion. All the religious thinkers were doubters.
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Unfortunately we don't have all the bits and pieces on the car that we had hoped to have by this stage so we've got to make as good a job as we can with what we have and we feel we are doing well with that at the moment.
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Most mainline Protestant churches are, to one degree or another, post-Christian. If they no longer seem disposed to converting the unbelieving to Christ, they can at least convert them to the boggiest of soft-left clichés, on the grounds that if Jesus were alive today he’d most likely be a gay Anglican bishop in a committed relationship driving around in an environmentally friendly car with an “Arms are for Hugging” sticker on the way to an interfaith dialogue with a Wiccan and a couple of Wahhabi imams.
