Mark Steyn Quotes
We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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It is something where I think that people need to take a step back and realize how bad these things we are doing really are for our ears. But nobody really thinks about it. We're playing shows every night with music in our ears. That's just the industry.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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Good writers know that crime is an entre into telling a greater story about character. Good crime writing holds up a mirror to the readers and reflects in a darker light the world in which they live.
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My mind boggles at the amount of violence inflicted upon children in today's society.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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I'm a reader of Chinese literature, I like their films, but also: I've had great difficulty getting my work published in China; very little of it has been published there. The first two attempts to have all of my work published, for instance, were refused without any reason ever being given.
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I still have a young attitude.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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When we look around the world today, when we see in Afghanistan that 10 million people have registered to vote in their upcoming elections, including 40 percent of those people are women, that's just unbelievable.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Mama tried to save us from the streets, but the streets were too strong.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I don't have all the answers.
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At the start of the year, I pray for the happiness of the Japanese people and peace in the world.
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We're on the brink of a world in which the wealthiest nations, from Canada to Norway to Japan, can barely project meaningful force to their own borders while the nickel 'n' dime basket-cases go nuclear.
