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.
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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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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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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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Sentit enim vis quisque suas quoad possit abuti.cornua nata prius vitulo quam frontibus extent,illis iratus petit atque infestus inurget.
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Success doesn't change you; fame does. 1
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Eternity would mean nothing without you. For no power on this earth would I trade my Elena.
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The liberal entertainment industry is a fickle world. So it's about living in the moment, and it's about being clear with it and understanding that this is another opportunity to step up the staircase a little bit and create some newer opportunities and get involved in some other projects, as well as possibly creating your own.
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Index funds are... tax friendly, allowing investors to defer the realization of capital gains or avoid them completely if the shares are later bequeathed. To the extent that the long-run uptrend in stock prices continues, switching from security to security involves realizing capital gains that are subject to tax. Taxes are a crucially important financial consideration because the earlier realization of capital gains will substantially reduce net returns.
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My entire delight was in observing without being myself noticed,- if I could have been invisible, all the better. . . to be in the midst of it, and rejoice and wonder at it, and help it if I could, - happier if it needed no help of mine, - this was the essential love of Nature in me, this the root of all that I have usefully become, and the light of all that I have rightly learned.
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When you do a menu at a restaurant, you have to be the engineer of that menu. It has to be a crowd-pleaser.
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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.
