David Frum Quotes
If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
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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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I believe that everyone should be treated as an individual. Women should be treated equally in the right to vote, sure. But if I'm paying to see a comedy, then I just want to see who's funniest, with everyone treated equally.
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It is not true that drink changes a man's character. It may reveal it more clearly.
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I'm wearing a new perfume that I should recommend to the women in the audience; it's called 'Tester.
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Life takes its path and sometimes there are people to blame. Of course there are bad people in this world. Good, bad, it happens unfortunately. But in a way I think if there was more focus on the good, more good would happen.
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Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.
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If right and left are competing to be the biggest victim, who is competing to be the government?
