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David Frum Quotes

Partly because of the desperate economic situation in the country, what were once the leading institutions of conservatism are constrained.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: public
Nationality: american
Birth: June 30, 1960

Topics

Situation Country Economic Because

Rock n' roll is very special to me. It's my lifeblood.

Me Special Rock Roll Very Lifeblood

I've been to a lot of places and done a lot of things, but writing was always first. It's a kind of pain I can't do without.

Robert Penn Warren

Pain Writing Done Kind Places First

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.

I Am Me Judge Now Judge Me Actor

I like to do as much improv as I can do.

I Can Improv Like Much

I have often felt bad that I am not great at any one thing. Like just a super super singer. Or the Gregory Hines of something.

Great I Am Bad Singer Something

I think if you look at Sam Raimi and Jim Cameron, those guys know things about filmmaking that almost nobody knows anymore. They are students of film from when they handmade films themselves, you know cut films with their own hands and razor blades and tape.

Think Hands You Look Filmmaking Own

It's Nixon who created the Environmental Protection Agency. Clean Air and Water Acts. Endangered Species Act. Promoted affirmative action. One could go on and on with Nixon as a New Deal liberal on domestic policy and a hawk, but one with great geo-political skills.

Douglas Brinkley

Great Water Environmental Action New

I'm the kind of person who can hear that stuff. If you sing along to the radio and you're not going to sing unison with the melody, but find the harmony, I find that pretty easy to do.

Easy You Harmony Find Person Kind

I think it's incredibly cute when a guy can't dance and doesn't care about how crazy he looks.

Cute Dance Crazy Think Care Looks

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

Time Myself Writing Place Personal

I don't think nostalgia is a healthy modality. But nostalgia and a sense of history are not the same thing. Nostalgia is a dysfunction of the historical impulse, or a corruption of the historical impulse.

History Think Corruption Nostalgia

If someone is always to blame, if every time something goes wrong someone has to be punished, people quickly stop taking risks. Without risks, there can't be breakthroughs.

Peter Diamandis

Time Risks People Blame Chance Stop

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