David Frum Quotes
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My parents came to see me in a play at Eton when I was 16. And then, when I said I wanted to try for drama school, they knew there was enough passion there for them to be brave and back me.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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I'm a great believer in letting lyrics just flow out, wherever they come from.
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I am mad for nature writing. I want to get inside the head of every creature in the world, even ants.
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I never forgot being poor, and I never stopped thinking how fortunate I am.
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I took a job at a white-shoe NYC law firm, with an office, business cards, and a fat starter paycheck.
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Guys usually know immediately that I'm high-maintenance.
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The biggest thing I learned from losing? Winning's better.
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My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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If I read in a paper that somebody has said something about me, I'm going to take it with a pinch of salt; I really am!
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There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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That's why teenagers fascinate me – they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct.
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The little kids in the stands are going to give you a good cheer. Sometimes, that overrides the other people.
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If someone has failed, that is not a deficiency for me. I think that he has more motivation. I've seen many examples where someone was successful first and failed later and failed first and then succeeded. If they failed in an honest way, I don't see it as a deficiency.
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CNN will always be the channel people turn on when wars and horrible disasters happen. The 'trick' is getting people to also want to watch it when there aren't hundreds or thousands of people somewhere in the world currently in mortal peril.
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No--when the rain falls you just let it fall and you grin like a madman and you dance with it, because if you can make yourself happy in the rain then you're doing pretty alright in life. (Nick, page 156)
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The elite isn't leading anymore. It's trapped.
