Mark Steyn Quotes
Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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My style of singing is very much Latin jazz meets Latin and a little bit of rhythm and blues. When I do ballads, my fans love it. They want to listen to my classics. They want to party.
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I could never let the teacher down. I always worked hard, too scared to get in trouble.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It started 25 years ago, when I was teaching elementary school in a small town in Missouri.
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A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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Frankly, alcohol leads to a lot of other things when you start drinking at 12-years old. It is a big problem that needs to be addressed. Frankly, the industry has pushed us back and pushed us back.
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I used to have this fantasy when I was growing up where Princess Leia would be in the slave Leia costume and she would be in a vat of Breyer's ice cream. A recurring dream where I would eat my way to her.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.
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Custom adapts itself to expediency.
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Those who said I'm not an out-and-out goal-scorer are probably right. I always feel I could score more.
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I am also hugely excited to then be competing to defend my three Paralympic titles at the Paralympic Games. I believe we will see some amazing times posted and I am very much looking forward to what will be an incredible Olympics and Paralympics in London.
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Why is computer science a good field for women? For one thing, that's where the jobs are, and for another, the pay is better than for many jobs, and finally, it's easier to combine career and family.
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I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.
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Things you create with your mind are always part of your postmortal life, whether they seem real or not.
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When students have thanked me in the past for being their teacher, I have always felt that it was actually my love for the art of teaching they were speaking to.
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This is about the whole of the international community, there is a board of the International Atomic Energy Agency where it has decided on seven successive occasions unanimously that Iran must bring itself in to full compliance with its own obligations, which have been there for years and years, for complete transparency under the Non Proliferation Treaty.
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Nobody makes a movie thinking it's still going to be watched and talked about and quoted 20 years later.
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Everyone has their own path and you can't judge.
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Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nation that takes Barack Obama's current rhetorical flourishes seriously is certainly well advanced along that dismal path.
