Clement Freud Quotes
There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.
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If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
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If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Mutual respect is very important in a relationship, and since my work is part of my life, he would have to respect it.
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I think everybody can identify, you know, with this sort of struggle to decide for yourself who you are, you know, and what your place in life is.
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It's a wild thing, that people have the ability to help each other by just relating to one another.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.
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I don't mind playing spoiler.
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Choosing a spouse with religion in mind is not always a mistake, especially if your heritage and your faith are important parts of who you are. The trick is, as always, to recognize a good thing when you see it - and never mistake the bad for something more.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I got spoiled on 'Breaking Bad.' Playing the same guy for four or five seasons, you get to really explore who the character is.
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It is out of the question that the task of socialist women's activity should be to alienate proletarian women from duties as wives and mothers; on the contrary, it must operate so this task is fulfilled better than before, precisely in the interests of the proletariat.
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Well, I think my paintings are fast enough already...
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The partisan wants to change the law, the criminal break it; the anarch wants neither. He is not for or against the law. While not acknowledging the law, he does try to recognize it like the laws of nature, and he adjusts accordingly.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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There's no law that decrees when not to whinge, but you reach a certain age - 80 seems about right - when you're expected to manifest querulousness - the coffee's too hot, the boiled egg's too soft.
