Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't have a radio or TV going all the time. It's very important to have awareness, to know when you tense up and then to stop that.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I do not consider myself beautiful.
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I would like to tell the young men and women before me not to lose hope and courage. Success can only come to you by courageous devotion to the task lying in front of you.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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But I think boys ultimately are easier than girls.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.
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By resisting almost any change aimed at improving our public schools, teachers' unions have become a ripe target for reformers across the ideological spectrum.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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My mom is not trying to live vicariously through me.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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Even when I am writing I usually take a break around lunchtime and go for a little walk to clear out my head.
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This is probably going to surprise people, but if you were to do a scan around the globe on public policy concerning our industry, you would probably have to conclude that the United States has the policy that has been, I believe, the most pro competition.
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I was the very first athlete in East Germany allowed to go professional.
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I reached a point where I'd watched enough directors do the job that I felt I understood it. And it's not that I'm a slow learner and it took me this long; I also was enjoying writing, and I still enjoy writing - I get tremendous satisfaction out of the writing end of it.
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A rich rogue nowadays is fit company for any gentleman; and the world, my dear, hath not such a contempt for roguery as you imagine.
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I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle.
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My kids and I live like three fun-loving hermits. We're quite bohemian.
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The government believed that adherence to authority was human nature, so the Gezi protests were a real surprise to them. After the initial moment of shock, they decided to severely punish those participating in what they called an act of disobedience to authority.
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When I first came in the league, I thought Jack Clark and Steve Garvey were big. Then all of sudden it seemed like everyone was that big.
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
