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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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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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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In order to be vigorously continued, nuclear power must be profoundly modified.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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Christmas is a season which almost all Christians observe in one way or another. Some keep it as a religious season. Some keep it as a holiday. But all over the world, wherever there are Christians, in one way or another Christmas is kept.
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I'm trying to be a singer, not a civil rights leader.
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There are designers who say, 'Oh! I see wallpaper and blue carpet.' I usually start by knocking down walls. 'You thought you just needed some new drapes? Well, guess what: That wall's gotta go.'
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I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it.
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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.
