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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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There is surely nothing other than the single purpose of the present moment. A man's whole life is a succession of moment after moment. If one fully understands the present moment, there will be nothing else to do, and nothing else to pursue. Live being true to the single purpose of the moment.
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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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If you have a particular faith or religion, that is good. But you can survive without it.
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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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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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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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Going to Cambridge was a bit of a culture shock, I was a working class lass from Batley who hadn't been anywhere apart from the odd holiday on the Costa Del Sol.
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Meeting all the wonderful, new people and people appreciating my new music has been a really fun and blessed ride.
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'The X-Files' was a hard sell because people didn't know what it was. The network didn't understand what it was that they were buying, and at the beginning, they wanted us to have closure. They wanted us to put the cuffs on the bad guy at the end of each episode.
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I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know.
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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.
