Thomas Frank Quotes

As you watch the world crumble, try taking your Armageddon with this sprinkling of irony: Over the last three decades, business has got virtually everything it wanted, and its doomsday scenario from the 1970s has come true because of it.

Thomas Frank

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BusinessWorldYouThreeTrueTry

Concentration is my motto - first honesty, then industry, then concentration.

Andrew Carnegie

HonestyMottoFirstIndustryThen

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

Michael Curtiz

RegretYouThingsOnly

I have a doctorate in fine arts from Knox College in Illinois. All I did was give a speech, and now everybody has to call me Dr. Colbert.

Stephen Colbert

CollegeMeSpeechNowCallArts

If you consider that a typical Central American consumer earns only a small fraction of an average American worker's wages, it becomes clear that CAFTA's true goal is not to the increase U.S. exports.

Stephen F. Lynch

SmallAmericanYouGoalTrueClear

Martha Stewart was the one who really did show everybody that you can do everything.

Trisha Yearwood

YouEverythingShowWhoEverybody

I like Rebecca Miller and her writing. She's a tremendous writer and director.

Travis Fimmel

WritingSheDirectorHerLike

Opening for certain acts after so many years of headlining obviously made us resentful. It was kind of hard watching all these bands, who I really believed didn't deserve to be on top musically, going ahead and pushing us out.

Robin Zander

KindAheadDeserveTopWatchingOut

Traditional Marxism attempted to argue against free enterprise by saying that capitalism causes poverty and that, therefore, socialism is necessary. That didn't work, because it was false.

Robert Zubrin

WorkSocialismSayingCapitalism

Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up.

Mary Astell

EducationIgnoranceFoundationVice

Education must lead us from the irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgment. It must lead us from chance and arbitrariness to rational clarity and intellectual order. Therefore, let us guide our students over the road of discipline from materials, through function, to creative work.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

WorkEducationDisciplineCreative

I believe that 'The Artist' is the kind of movie you see and you don't forget. I know it's going to stay with me.

Judy Blume

MeBelieveYouArtistKnowForget

I've never gone to comedy clubs.

Don Rickles

ComedyNeverGoneClubs

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