Clement Freud Quotes
I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
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Mike Pence not only knows the Capitol. He knows the players in the House and the Senate. He knows how the committee system works. But he also knows all the governors. And so that really brings a unique talent to the picture.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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When you look at someone good like J.J. Abrams who gives you the spectacle and great action set pieces but also gives you character and great story and plotting and narrative, I think it's my job - and my intention - to do both.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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I have been in more classrooms than any legislator will ever walk into in their lives, and I see wonderful, caring, dedicated teaching out there.
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I'm a huge Wong Kar-Wai fan.
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I'm a romantic, but I'm not a romantic in the traditional sense. I like to romanticize what happens to me. Whatever happens to me - you could quantify it as good or bad - I romanticize it. I think along the lines of 'When that thing happened, it made me who I am.' That kind of thing. It's a different way of being romantic.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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To me, being worth it means being independent and carving your own path. The L'Oreal woman is worth it because she wants to be.
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We see considerable strain in Russia, and that's obviously a matter of concern to us. It's in the very strong self-interest of Russia to continue on the reform path.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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It doesn't happen that way.
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding.
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When the economic well-being of their nation demanded a strong and creative response, my colleagues at the Federal Reserve... mustered the moral courage to do what was necessary.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
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I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.
