David Frum Quotes
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Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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There's always elements of danger in New York, but people are always out on the street. I don't feel scared there at all.
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It's a great time of the year... if you can stand it.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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San Francisco, coolest place ever.
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I'm tired of defending my character. I am what I am.
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I am just getting into Zora Neale Hurston, who is possibly a much better writer than the critics and rivals who tried to erase her from history, resulting in a life in which she worked as a maid and died in a welfare nursing home. She's clever. She does something modern to the sentence.
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I feel privileged that I've been able to get anywhere, with my quote-unquote limited mainstream appeal, given my race and subject matter. Of course, I always have my masters to fall back on.
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It's funny because when I'm outside Australia, I never get to do my Australian accent in anything. It's always a Danish accent or an English accent or an American accent.
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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When I turned 59, I looked at that as the first day of my 60th year, so I've been 60 for the last 365 days, in my opinion. So I've been thinking all this year, I'm 60 - this is the time when I need to get some stuff done.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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I'm on 'Dancing with the Stars' because I want to prove my sister wrong. My sister literally told the world that I could not dance, so I have to redeem myself.
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My best girlfriends are the girls I went to college with at UCLA.
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Microsoft is engaging in unlawful predatory practices that go well beyond the scope of fair competition.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory.
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Today people are a hundred times more interested in the personality of the person they are with than the clothes he wears.
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Today's Republican party is too beholden to factions generally.
