Clement Freud Quotes
I was called up in 1942. Having been born in Berlin, schooled in Devon, London and Berkshire, and lived in Suffolk, I ended up in the Highland Light Infantry.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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You had to go to a different part of town from where I was to get Muddy Waters singles. I had him on singles.
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I do this thing at every party: I go to a party, I stand around for, like, 45 minutes, and then I turn to my wife and say, 'I think we should go home.' And then we leave, and then I wake up the next morning and say to my wife, 'We don't go out anymore.' It's a great trick.
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Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.
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Let us have peace.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that's what I want to give.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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In your darkest moments of despair, a friend's hand on yours will get you through the worst.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I'm never interested in writing a kind of neutral, universal novel that could be set anywhere. To me, the novel is a local thing.
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Fighting bitterness can be a full-time job.
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Well, you know, Thomas Jefferson, who was the author of the Declaration of Independence said he wouldn't have any atheists in his cabinet because atheists wouldn't swear an oath to God. That was Jefferson and we have never had any Muslims in the cabinet.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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I have a saying: 'I'm good for three things: making fried bologna sandwiches, making money and picking out good movies.'
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Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes.
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I’m waiting for my princess to come I just have to be patient.
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My choice is what I choose to do and if I'm causing no harm it shouldn't bother you. Your choice is who you choose to be and if you're causin' no harm, then your alright with me.
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I was called up in 1942. Having been born in Berlin, schooled in Devon, London and Berkshire, and lived in Suffolk, I ended up in the Highland Light Infantry.
