Mark Steyn Quotes
The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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I haven't leaked anything to anybody. They are wrong!
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Life can be a bore if you're constantly walking sidewalks instead of a tightrope once in a while.
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The onset of mania occurs when repression is no longer able to resist the assaults of the repressed instincts.
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I went to high school in a steel town in Pennsylvania.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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My whole life, I've always had to be surrounded by creative things. I find it relaxing to be in touch with creations by other people.
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Place me behind prison walls - walls of stone ever so high, ever so thick, reaching ever so far into the ground. There is a possibility that in some way or another I may be able to escape. But stand me on that floor and draw a chalk line around me and have me give my word of honor never to cross it. Can I get out of that circle? No. Never.
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I often use hypothetical situations to generate information and imagery for paintings and to create a fictional space where a subject can be put into play.
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I'm very unpopular for my dislike of this food, but I've never liked avocado. Everyone gives me so much flack for it because they tell me how healthy it is for me, how delicious it is. I don't like it, but it's not for lack of trying. I tried to like it, and it's just not my thing.
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The road system that we've come to depend on, the road system that we built our wealth on and our power on, is falling apart.
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I was a dancer from about the age of four, so I was always performing and forcing my parents to watch my brother and I do 'Jesus Christ Super Star' in the living room. My first step was community theater, and then I started to do films.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.
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I respect hippos. They just look the way they do; they can't do anything about it, but they don't seem bothered.
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Women are not the richer sex. Women are not equal in society.
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Adaptability is crucial to working on Glee because every day is adapting to something. Because we're doing a different genre of music, doing a different type of scene with a different scene partner, recording and dance rehearsals... no day is like another.
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Not knowing all of the conventions of beauty, he [Tom Thomson] found it all beautiful.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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We've let our rivals and challengers think they can get away with anything, and they do... If President Obama's goal had been to weaken America, he could not have done a better job.
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The salient feature of America in the Age of Obama is a failed government class institutionally committed to living beyond its means, and a citizenry too many of whom are content to string along.
