Thomas Frank Quotes

Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we also had an entire genre of journalism dedicated to brushing the problem off.

Thomas Frank

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Iran is not a nation-state; it's a revolutionary cause devoted to mayhem.

Jim Mattis

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To me, this is the most awesome kind of art. When the music is right, everybody is as much a part of the art.

Michael Israel

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You never write a theme for a movie thinking, 'This will live forever.'

John Williams

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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

Jean de la Bruyere

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It's very hard to find critics or a magazine today that will publish material that is genuinely independent and written without any concern about being cut off some distributor's list or not be invited or flown into screenings.

Wim Wenders

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When I was a kid, I really wanted a metal detector for Christmas, convinced I was going to find buried treasure and could retire at 12. Santa Claus brought me one, but sadly, that treasure was never realized. It's amazing how many bottle caps you have to dig up. But to be honest, that dream is still alive.

Peter Billingsley

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I've been a financial journalist for 30 years.

Peter Brimelow

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I look back to when I got divorced in the late 1970s. When that happened, I was so broken up. After that, I decided to seek God for my life and my next marriage.

Ricky Skaggs

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My youngest son has a very clear idea of what he wants to be when he grows up: he wants to be Indiana Jones, Batman and Jack Sparrow. Yes, all three at the same time. So he basically wants to be an archaeologist who wears tights and fights crimes on pirate ships. That's pretty cool, huh?

Rhys Darby

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The people's army should always maintain a highly agitated state and be equipped with full fighting readiness so as to smash the enemies with a single stroke if they make the slightest move and achieve the historic cause of the fatherland's reunification.

Kim Jong-un

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Innovation and commerce are as powerful tools for creating social progress as they are for driving technological advancement.

Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

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For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?

Jane Austen

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