David Frum Quotes
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
Quotes to Explore
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One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.
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I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.
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To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
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What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.
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Time well spent results in more money to spend, more money to save, and more time to vacation.
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But the good news was that my elder sister refused to get married straight away and I couldn't get married until she did so I had the licence to go off and dream.
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The word 'spinster' tells you everything you need to know about our attitude of women who choose not to marry.
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Gang members have invariably grown up in broken, chaotic homes, often experiencing domestic violence; they have truanted from school and many have been formally excluded; and they live in neighbourhoods where worklessness, addiction and crime are rife.
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There were a number of people who helped me get there, and the one I always mention is Michael Byrne, the great master swordsman and brilliant stunt double.
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Word of mouth travels faster than anything else.
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I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning news shows on TV and felt strongly about issues of power, control, sexuality and race.
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The more you believe in yourself, the faster you're going to get.
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Though the Grimms kept about 100 of the tales from the first edition, they changed them a good deal.
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So much of the physical world has been explored. But the deluge of data I get to investigate really lets me chart new territory. Genetic data from people living today forms an archaeological record of what happened to their ancestors 10,000 years ago.
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I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
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Dylan can do no wrong.
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I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
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We live in a world that relies on technology.
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I'm not jumping on the Andy Johnson for England bandwagon - I'm driving it!
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Few novels truly deserve the description 'rollicking' in the way Mary Novik's Conceit does. A hearty, boiling stew of a novel, served up in rich old-fashioned story-telling. Novik lures her readers into the streets of a bawdy seventeenth-century London with a nudge and a wink and keeps them there with her infectious love of detail and character. A raunchy, hugely entertaining read that will leave you at once satiated and hungry for more.
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The world is bound in secret knots.
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I feed off variety. I don't want to repeat myself if I can help it, but once they've seen you doing one thing, directors often just want you to do it again.
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If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
