David Frum Quotes
There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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It's pretty hard to make out what's going to be a commercial success and what's not.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I used to joke that I came to England - not to the U.S. where most Koreans go - because I like Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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I'm more comfortable writing traditional protagonists. But 'Steve Jobs' and 'The Social Network' have antiheroes. I like to write antiheroes as if they're making their case to God about why they should be allowed into heaven. I have to find something in that character that is like me and write to that.
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Killers can seem smart when you can't figure out who they are.
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It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
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I don't need fame any more. People are less interested in me in terms of celebrity. I'm happy to see a new generation being the media focus. I'm happy my day is done. It's over.
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I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
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I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.
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When women criticized men, I called it 'insight'... When men criticized women, I called it 'sexism' and 'backlash.'
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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When you look at a kitchen, you tend to see that the people who are doing really well are those who have worked with the same chef or stayed in one restaurant for a significant amount of time.
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People in America think of it as a sad and downtrodden place, and I guess it could be, but it's not because that's not who Cubans are. In Cuba, you get a good story every day you go out walking. People are so funny.
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There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things.
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I've always maintained a cordial dislike for indent, because it's usuallyright.
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A computer shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come to harm.
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There are a lot of wonderful people in America who shouldn't be on the Supreme Court - and a lot who should be on the court who aren't such wonderful people.
