David Frum Quotes

Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

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• Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Always
  • Name
  • Writer

• Look, you're here to see me, and I can't go on until my dealer is here, and he's waiting to be paid, so give me some money so I can fix up, and then you'll get your show.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Money
  • Me

• I'm not good at interviews, I'm not good at dancing, I'm not good at looking like I'm having fun. I never will be, I don't think. Unless I go to a life coach.

  

  Calvin Harris
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • True
  • You
  • Wisdom

• What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Conflict
  • Inequality

• The thing about being in America is when you are driving with the sun on your back, there's hip hop. I never used to be into hip hop, but there's hip hop in the food, soul food, there's hip hop in the cars.

  

  Vanessa Brown
  • America
  • Soul
  • Food

• The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Real
  • Wine
  • Cooking

• I can't be a role model. I just can't be.

  

  Larry Drake
  • Model
  • Just
  • Role Model

• Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

  

  Ida Lupino
  • Men
  • Hate
  • Approach

• The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Life
  • You
  • Capable

• Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.

  

  Patrick Murray
  • Political
  • Party
  • Name

• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  

  Larry Page
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• The creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Intelligent

• The general opinion appears to be that it is very funny to make yourself out as fast or as foolish as possible; though even worse than this is the painful orthodoxy of those individuals who claim Shakespeare for their favourite poet, Beethoven for their favourite composer, and Raphael for their favourite painter.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Funny
  • Opinion

• Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • God

• Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • War

• Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.

  

  Antonio Porchia

• The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.

  

  Anais Nin

• I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.

  

  Eileen Myles

• The Kurds in Iraq just don't have enough military equipment - they also need humanitarian relief.

  

  Pete Hoekstra
  • Military

• Courses in prosody, rhetoric and comparative philology would be required of all students, and every student would have to select three courses out of courses in mathematics, natural history, geology, meteorology, archaeology, mythology, liturgics, cooking.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • History
  • Cooking
  • Would Be

• Whenever I go out, so many people who respect me ask me what to do in a certain situation. A lot of times, I didn't know the answers because sometimes I was going through the same sort of thing. But then later on, I would think of things that people told me.

  

  Patti LaBelle
  • People
  • Respect

• The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people who feel certain about things they never try to find out. A world that educates people to be ignorant - that is what this world of ours is.

  

  Freya Stark
  • People
  • World
  • Door

• Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.

  

  David Frum