Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Russia is an amazing country to be an entrepreneur.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Even though I had been boxing, I had no idea I could beat somebody in the ring. And I had no idea I could really take a punch. When I realized that, I really started taking off.
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Being in a male-dominated industry, you can feel like a little excluded. That was making me feel like maybe I'm not funny. I was really seriously considering, like, quitting standup.
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A nice quick workout is the stairs; it takes me five minutes to do 24 floors.
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I plan to go to university - but for sure, acting is what I want to do. It's a hard business, but I believe in my heart that I'll be doing it for a very long time.
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Women's Studies can amount simply to compensatory history; too often they fail to challenge the intellectual and political structures that must be challenged if women as a group are ever to come into collective, nonexclusionary freedom.
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Men of learning are those who have read the contents of books. Thinkers, geniuses, and those who have enlightened the world and furthered the race of men, are those who have made direct use of the book of the world.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one.
