David Frum Quotes

If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

David Frum

• World
• Country
• Truth

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I can go all over the world with Skype.

  

  Ram Dass
  • World
  • I Can
  • Skype

• I think sports and bodybuilding were the only things that saved me from getting beat up. People are not pleased, for whatever reason, when you can answer all the questions in class. If not for the respect I got from track, cross-country, wrestling and bodybuilding, it would have been a disaster.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Monster

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• I don't really read 'business books,' and I didn't think 'The Paradox of Choice' was a business book. I'm very surprised and gratified that the business world thought it was one.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • World
  • Business
  • Book

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • War
  • Dark

• All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • World
  • Sustainability

• Many U.S. organizations believe that I am being barred from the country not because of my actions but because of my ideas. The conclusion seems inescapable.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Ideas
  • Actions
  • Conclusion

• We were poor, my mother and I, living in a world of doom and gloom, pessimism and bitterness, where storms raged and wolves scratched at the door.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • World
  • Mother
  • Door

• There are no friends at cards or world politics.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • World
  • Friends
  • Politics

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.

  

  Laura Dekker
  • World
  • Live
  • Learn

• I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Up
  • World
  • Different

• Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • World
  • You
  • Me

• John Schneider's cool. I mean, he is the epitome of cool. To be that confident without any chip on his shoulder is very hard to do, and that man just has it. To be that well-known and still be so personable and social, it's just fantastic.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Man
  • Cool
  • Confident

• Eating disorders are usually nothing to do with food. Parents need to be with their child to see them through it. All the therapists in the world can't help if the parents aren't present, loving, and proactive.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • World
  • Help
  • Parents

• I don't believe that if I came out as bisexual the world will change. But it's really important for people to be truthful about who they are and fight for equality. We need to help the world usher itself into the next phase.

  

  Olivia Thirlby
  • People
  • World
  • Believe

• Even when something sad or tragic happens, I find a way to look at it in a positive light. People who don't have a sense of humor must be so sad all the time.

  

  Zach Anner
  • People
  • Time
  • Light

• A world without newspapers or a world where the newspapers are purely electronic and you read them on a screen is not a very appealing world.

  

  Bill Bryson
  • World

• I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.

  

  David Beckham
  • Decision
  • Regret

• Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
  • Wants
  • Precious
  • iss

• If you go on TV and say there's no other country in the world where you can be born poor and become rich, you get a huge megaphone. If you tell the truth, which is that most of the studies show actually the United States is worse than anybody except Britain in upward mobility, there is no audience for you.

  

  David Frum
  • World
  • Country
  • Truth