David Frum Quotes
Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
Quotes to Explore
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Standing up on the right to trial by jury is something that, really, a lot of people should agree with, you know, both on the Right and the Left.
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There's this idea of a star, and this person is very aloof and writes all the music, and they don't talk to anyone unless they go through the record label. And I always felt very uncomfortable about that.
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Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.
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Bruce always had to tell a lie. He was always living that lie. Caitlyn doesn't have any secrets.
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I like to perform live like we're all just hanging out in my living room. I'm totally casual and informal on stage.
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I want to write without shame or pride or over-compensation in one direction or another. To write freely.
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I come from an acting family, my father was an actor, and I had to fight my way and just create my own identity.
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So many people have that story as to how they could have maybe won the Indy 500, which is for me the ultimate goal. I would imagine for a lot of people it's the ultimate goal. It's definitely high up on the list.
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I don't like not having a job. Especially when I started Mixed Martial Arts, this was all I could do.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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Chemical weapons are something that scares everybody.
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And the sun sets on another year. Much to ponder upon, even more to look forward to...
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I will not be tamed, only persuaded. I will not be coerced or led blindly or tricked or bullied - I am willing only to be convinced. If you don't trust your own basic goodness enough to tell me what you're trying to do... Then you're confessing your own moral weakness and I'll never serve you.
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One of the men in the boat-I could not remember which character-had moved through all of the circles of theological supposition: praying, believing that God was a merciful Deity who sat up nights worrying about him, then believing that God was a cruel bastard, and finally deciding that no one was listening.
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We think of the division of labor as being outdated, but in fact it has reemerged. In the early ‘80s, a mother was 43 times more likely than the father to leave the workplace for family responsibilities; more recently, a mom is 135 times more likely to leave the workplace for family responsibilities.
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The code also assumes that it's difficult to misspell 'a' or 'b'.
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Aetati tuae, mi Tiberi, noli in hac re indulgere et nimium indignari quemquam esse, qui de me male loquatur; satis est enim, si hoc habemus ne quis nobis male facere possit.
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I'm close with all my family. It's just a normal, healthy, all-American divorced family.
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I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
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As a general rule, most recent university graduates know far more about U.S. economic history and 'The Lord of the Flies' than about how the modern workplace functions and how to succeed in it. Yet come senior year of college, it couldn't be more important or more timely to learn the basics of getting a job.
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I have become a prisoner of the peace movement. But you can't say that the termination is coming and then say that you are going back to your own garden to dig.
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Part of the joy of looking at art is getting in sync in some ways with the decision-making process that the artist used and the record that's embedded in the work.
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Events don't happen because I write a speech. I am allowed to write a speech because events are going to happen.
