Mark Steyn Quotes
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To grow up knowing you're loved is astounding. It's a huge gift to a child.
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Sometimes people can put way too much emphasis on looking 'hot' which can be stressful and put you in your head.
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People speak of the fear of the blank canvas as though it is a temporary hesitation, a trembling moment of self-doubt. For me it was more like being abducted from my bed by a clown, thrust into a circus arena with a wicker chair, and told to tame a pissed-off lion in front of an expectant crowd.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I was thinking things had changed: that the next generation of men weren't as institutionally misogynist as the previous were. And then, suddenly, the Internet came along and gave them a platform to voice their feelings anonymously. And boy, did the bile come out.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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I have no advice for anyone on how to live.
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I just want to have a nice, happy life.
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We live in a world where people think that finding a passion is so rare that if you find one you're the luckiest person on the planet, and the possibility of finding two is just bizarre. It isn't. We have multiple passions.
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The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every calling, is diligence.
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I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.
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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment.
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I just miss - I miss being anonymous.
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I hyperventilate quite a lot.
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I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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I always approach every role through a lens of comedy.
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We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did.
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Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
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You hear about the Duke Ellingtons, the Jimmie Luncefords, and the Fletcher Hendersons, but people sometimes forget that jazz was not only built in the minds of the great ones, but on the backs of the ordinary ones.
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Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
