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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Mini dresses that have an over skirt of tulle makes it traditional and modern at the same time.
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The People in this Town began to inquire my Business, and because I did not readily inform them, they began to suspect me, and said, that I was come to settle the Indian's Land and they knew I should never go Home again Safe.
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I employ thousands of people, maybe 5,000 or 6,000. In my mind, they are all doing well. Because if they are not doing well in their minds, I'm not as strong as I could be.
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I'm a comedy snob, and I never want anything that I do to get old.
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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.
