David Frum Quotes
My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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You don't have to be desperate. Never be desperate. That is my slogan.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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I'm not the most technical producer, so the weird mixes and blown-out sound happen naturally.
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Let's all understand that these guiding principles cannot be discarded for short-term political gains. They represent what this country is all about. They are indigenous to the American idea. And these are principles which are not negotiable.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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We've got to step up our conservation efforts before it's too late. We're not protecting our lands and natural resources. Take the Grand Canyon for example; I'm sure that at one time it was a beautiful piece of land, and just look at the way we've let it go.
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Every body about me seem'd happy but every body seem'd in a hurry to be happy somewhere else.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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If you can't play guitar and sing in Nashville, you might as well just be a construction worker.
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The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I'm used to being the underdog.
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I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials.
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I have a secret love of jazz.
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I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.
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We humans can get used to anything. It really is remarkable. The problem is that we often use this glorious ability of ours to stay stuck in mediocrity. Oh, the years we waste adapting to lousy marriages, soul-sucking jobs, being friends with people who are rude to waitresses.
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My mom was truly an iconic figure, a great journalist and a pioneering woman who died at 54 of cancer without ever having revealed to viewers that she was ill.
