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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If you are going to tell a story about a child going missing, it's going to have similarities with a real life child going missing.
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One of the reasons I'm so competitive - I mean, I'm not winning much anymore - at my age was because I always worked hard and because we have a level playing field. We don't have motorbikes in the peloton anymore.
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I actually don't think that I'm gonna sell a lot of records.
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There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.
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If you want to do something different, you're going to come up against a lot of naysayers.
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If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.
