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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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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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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My goal would be to make Frank Capra-type films about real people, how they define their reality.
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I archive a lot of my clothes and have them wrapped up and in boxes. I call them 'little tombs' and keep them in a storage space... I would never get rid of the dress I wore on the night I won my Oscar. When I die, someone can have it, but not a minute before!
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I can touch my toes, but I bend in a strange way. I'll never be in the Olympics.
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When it came to the Vietnam War, Mr. McNamara was an early advocate of escalation but came to realize the flaws in the American approach earlier than many of his colleagues. Yet in public, he continued to defend the war.
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All fatherhood is very important because single mothers shouldn't have to raise sons or daughters; they need that help.
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Since the Renaissance, people have had to get used to living their life on a random planet in the vast galaxy.
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You get to a certain point in your life where you get closer to the end of your life than the beginning, and it colors your life, in a way.
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Bride knoweth bride at the glance of an eye. And between them swiftly passes comfort and meaning in a language that man and widows wot not of.
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Appeasement is a vote to live in the present tense, to hold the comforts of the moment.
