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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We remained in Texas leading a quiet home life until 1889.
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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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Poetry should be able to reach everybody, and it should be able to appeal to all levels of understanding.
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Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason.
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One of the things I want to do as an artist is to connect generations.
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You have to understand that crew members make movies so they're seeing a lot of actors all the time in their career acting.
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Initiative can neither be created nor delegated. It can only spring from the self-determining individual, who decides that the wisdom of others is not always better than his own.
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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.
