Mark Steyn Quotes
The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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Picking up a guitar brought a lot of balance into my life.
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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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In case of doubt, do a little more than you have to.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.
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There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
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Statistically, Portland, Oregon has the most street kids, like kids that run away from home and live on the street. It's like a whole culture thing there. If you walk around on the streets, there are kids living on the streets, begging for money, but it's almost like a cool thing. They all just sit around and play music and squat.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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My dad met my mom at Casper College in the orientation line. He studied business and eventually transferred to the University of Wyoming at Laramie.
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You can't play a guy who's just a snake, because what do you draw on?
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In Asian languages, the word for 'mind' and the word for 'heart' are same. So if you're not hearing mindfulness in some deep way as heartfulness, you're not really understanding it. Compassion and kindness towards oneself are intrinsically woven into it. You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.
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The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These laws execute themselves. They are out of time, out of space, and not subject to circumstance.
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Fortunately, I've done so many interviews that I've become very good at detecting when someone is giving a less-than-candid reply.
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I'm innocent. I've done nothing. I'm a nice guy.
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The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.
