David Frum Quotes
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Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.
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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.
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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.
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Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
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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.
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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.
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The trouble with some cooking is that the real flavours get cancelled out by the wine, cream, and butter sauces.
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I can't be a role model. I just can't be.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.
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Any political party that includes the word 'democratic' in its name, isn't.
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You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.
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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.
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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.
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Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
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Engineers did not discover insulation: they copied it from these old soldiers of the prairie war.
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Cuando me parece que escuchas mis palabras, me parecen tuyas mis palabres y escucho mis palabras.
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The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say.
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If anyone here is secretly dreaming of making the Olympics, I can tell you exactly how to do it, two words: Sustained Obsession. The obsession isn't so hard. But keeping it sustained is a tough nut to crack. A heart-felt enemy can go a long way to sustaining your obsession. Love your enemy.
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A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
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They are doing a lot more (than most new businesses) - not just hoopla, though.
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Who are you?" "No one of consequence." "I must know." "Get used to disappointment.
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Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets.
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Think tanks do have points of view, and they are absolutely entitled to defend them.
