Clement Freud Quotes
If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
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The sweeping, unfocused cuts of sequestration are certain to have unintended negative consequences, including for America's small businesses.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I'm a kind person; I don't have a really nihilist streak in me, but I respond to that kind of humour.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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It's very hard to put forth a film that's about love and the joy of love and for it not to be patronising and not make people nauseous or make them roll their eyes.
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I started off in journalism 16 years ago in Stockholm, and I wrote for a few different publications for many years. I've also worked in advertising as a copywriter and creative director, but I changed it for architecture at 25 years old.
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I started writing 'The Lord of Opium' in 2008 and produced about 80 pages before disaster struck. Three eye operations nearly put an end to my career.
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You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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A community is democratic only when the humblest and weakest person can enjoy the highest civil, economic, and social rights that the biggest and most powerful possess.
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No one can be saved - in virtue of what he can do. Everyone can be saved - in virtue of what God can do.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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People, when they come up to me, are like, 'Did we go to high school together? Or did I make out with you at sleepaway camp?' And oftentimes, yes, that is the answer, because I went to a giant high school and made out with everybody.
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I think that, in almost all human beings, there is buried a profound tribal instinct that makes us very susceptible to being aroused to patriotic fervour.
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I think people are learning to actually aspire to be objectified.
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What is the primary purpose of a political leader? To build a majority. If voters care about parking lots, then talk about parking lots.
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I wanted to see if I could be happy without a lot of stuff. And what I found out was, yeah, I really could.
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I grew up middle class - my dad was a high school teacher; there were five kids in our family. We all shared a nine-hundred-square-foot home with one bathroom. That was exciting. And my wife is Irish Catholic and also very, very barely middle class.
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To this day, the only argument against Obama that critics can seem to come up with involves admitting he's better than them - though they certainly season it with some racism. You know, he's that lucky black man who actually appeals to the populace. He's that elitist who got himself off food stamps and into Harvard.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
