Mark Steyn Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I left Jamaica for a while, because as an artist I need to experience different things, see the world, have different energies. Living in one place is not good for me.
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How does one measure the success of a museum?
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I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
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The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.
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There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
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Demosthenes: Do you dare to accuse wine of clouding the reason? Quote me more marvellous effects than those of wine. Look! when a man drinks, he is rich, everything he touches succeeds, he gains lawsuits, is happy and helps his friends. Come, bring hither quick a flagon of wine, that I may soak my brain and get an ingenious idea. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?
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I think what he loved about me the most was that I wasn't part of that world. But once we were together publicly, he wanted to change me into that social animal.
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I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
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I think we have a culture that creates heroes and then needs to knock them down, and then you have to see what the third act brings.
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As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.
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All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
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Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
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Imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
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At school, a few people know that I'm over here. I don't know about everybody, professors, curling people and a few kids in class.
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I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.
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It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.
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Women, perhaps even require a little hypocrisy.
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It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!
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Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
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Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.
