Thomas Frank Quotes

When done right - or wrong, depending on how you look at it - deficits remove liberal options from the table. Suddenly there's no money for building bridges or inspecting meat. Not surprisingly, running up a deficit is a strategy favored by the wrecking crew for its liberal-killing properties.

Thomas Frank

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Author Biography

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

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There is no post-9/11. Everything from now until the end of time is post-9/11.

Joe Bob Briggs

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Be able to delegate, because there are some things that you just can't do by yourself.

Meghan Markle

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So long as we love, we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Ninety-five percent of the time, I put myself in somebody else's position - that's how I live.

Angela Ahrendts

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You can get fixed ideas, and it can get restrictive. So, I try to put myself in a precarious position.

Merce Cunningham

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Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

Tony Blair

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In our house we say 'adolescence' is a western word. We don't believe in it.

Mira Nair

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Rwanda, which is one of the younger independent states in Africa, must be regarded as a model of how great human trauma can be transformed to commence true reconstruction of people. Human trauma can lead to stunted growth and mass withdrawal.

Wole Soyinka

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After the scarlet fever and the whooping cough, I remember I started to get mad about it all... I went through the stage of asking myself, 'Wilma, what is this existence all about? Is it about being sick all the time? It can't be.' So I started getting angry about things, fighting back in a new way with a vengeance.

Wilma Rudolph

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The scariest thing about screening a comedy... if you screen a drama, you know, there's no real way to tell in real time if people are enjoying it or not. But in a comedy, it's like, if people aren't laughing, it's sort of scary.

Tim Heidecker

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I don't like the process of meeting someone and you make a film and that's it. You think you're just getting started, and then it's over.

Ryan Gosling

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You remember France, it's the country that financed the American Revolution... OK, it was in their self-interest, but still, they made it happen. Let's face it: without the French, there would be no America... in other words, without them, there is no us.

Richard Belzer

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