Thomas Frank Quotes

We have become a society that can't self-correct, that can't address its obvious problems, that can't pull out of its nosedive. And so to our list of disasters let us add this fourth entry: we have entered an age of folly that - for all our Facebooking and the twittling tweedle-dee-tweets of the twitterati - we can't wake up from.

Thomas Frank

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 21, 1965

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Personally, when I don't feel like working out, I put on my workout clothes and pump up some music. It's definitely my #1 inspiration.

Jenna Ushkowitz

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The driving force behind 'In Our Time' is that I want an education. I want to know more about science, say, and if I want to know, then other people probably do, too.

Melvyn Bragg

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We want to assert the very principle that truth is absolute, truth is supreme, truth is never disposable in national political life.

John Howard

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Like the Tebbe complex, ruthenium olefin metathesis catalysts can be used for the production of living polymers.

Robert H. Grubbs

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Man, it's hard living in N.Y.C. - even when you have money in your pockets.

Su-chin Pak

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I have the best job in the whole world because I get paid to do something I love. How many people do you know who can say that?

Sondra Radvanovsky

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Teenage girls like certain things I wear - or certainly did when that whole boho thing happened.

Sienna Miller

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I have a wonderful wife I met at Rutgers while we were both there. She was in the Ph.D. program. She is not an actress. She definitely brings balance to my life. We actors can tend to bore anyone with shop talk.

Mike Colter

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There's this whole thing of being two people. You are the person you want to be - the writer - and then there's this weird other life of going on tour and talking about the writing. And that really is weird.

Michelle Paver

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Melissa McCarthy just opened this new movie, 'Identity Thief,' and Rex Reed, who's a known critic, wrote a scathing commentary on her weight. I think that weight designation is one of the last frontiers of bullying. I don't know what the right 'ism' for it is, but I think that there's a level of that that's happening that's certainly not okay.

Josh Gad

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I am always being described as having views that I've never had in my life.

Doris Lessing

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It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

David Suzuki

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