David Frum Quotes
What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
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I've had those people very interested in my writing. Since I think of myself as a composer, I feel really good. I've had lots of guys call me up. I've gotten two or three commissions to write things. I've written lots of movie scores.
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However and wherever we are, we must live as if we will never die.
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Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.
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I got along with people very well at every job I had, people liked me and I liked them and I loved being on my feet.
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I'm drawn to projects where I play these really complicated characters, but also where I can have some type of influence on affecting what we see as societal norms.
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Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.
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I love bookstores and booksellers. In my novel 'Dirty Martini,' I thanked over 3,000 booksellers by name in the back matter.
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COPD includes chronic bronchitis, emphysema, or both. Over time, it makes it harder and harder to breathe because less air is able to flow in and out of the lungs.
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Act strenuously, would appear to be our faith, and right thinking will take care of itself.
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Filming is about continuing to be alert and to think, and I find it quite exhausting.
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I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association - my older sister passed away from diabetes - and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.
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I invite you, from my sentiments, my convictions and my responsibilities, to work together in the construction of a Uruguay where being young is not suspicious, where aging is not a problem.
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After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.
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Good fortune is a god among men, and more than a god.
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When I got signed, I had just turned 16. I felt like I had to continuously have these confrontations with older men who were doubting my ideas because I was a woman, because I was 16.
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Some people will ruin a movie for you if they enthuse too much.
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So many struggled so that all of us could have a voice in this great democracy and live up to the first three words of our constitution: We the people. I love that phrase so much. Throughout our country's history, we've expanded the meaning of that phrase to include more and more of us. That's what it means to move forward.
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A poor person in my community doesn't see a person driving a Tesla and say, 'That benefits me.'
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The taste for splendor is hardly ever combined in the same souls with the taste for the honorable.
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There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.
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Compassion is the only one of the human emotions the Lord permitted Himself and it has carried the divine flavor ever since.
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Self-sabotage is the smartest thing you can do if you're sabotaging a self that is not really you.
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What I say is I am somebody who cares about conservative ideas. I want to see them implemented in governance.
