Mark Steyn Quotes
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
Dalai Lama -
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.
Ziggy Marley -
How does one measure the success of a museum?
J. Paul Getty -
I did tennis for a while, and I was actually on the volleyball team for a minute.
Kacey Musgraves -
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.
Orison Swett Marden -
There are two kinds of man: the ones who make history and the ones who endure it.
Camilo Jose Cela
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Catchphrases flourish in contemporary American English.
P. J. O'Rourke -
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)
Aristophanes -
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?
Clyde Tombaugh -
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.
Marla Maples -
I went to Ithaca, found the Grateful Dead and my life was changed.
David Boreanaz -
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.
Dean Devlin
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As we're unleashing the benefits of communications technologies, we also want to minimize the downsides.
Ajit Pai -
All our fret and worry is caused by calculating without God.
Oswald Chambers -
Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship.
Oprah Winfrey -
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.
Oscar Wilde -
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.
Marco Polo -
Let's don't wait forever for our lives to start. Let's begin them ourselves. Let's be fearless for once and say, we can do this.
Cammie McGovern
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Considering the amount of work I put into each piece, the amount I need to make from it is pretty high. I won't sell for less... but that means I rarely sell.
Paul Kane -
There are no dead-end jobs. There are no dead-end jobs. There are only dead-end people. Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people.
Thomas Sowell -
Absolute welfare corrupts absolutely.
Mark Steyn