Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
Quotes to Explore
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If you set out to do something and you give it your all and it doesn't work out, be willing to modify your goal slightly. Have the ability to look in another direction. A small shift could guide you to the real purposes of your life.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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Being a pop star is something I don't think I'm very good at. I'm worried it's making me too paranoid, because all of a sudden, life has become this constant assessment. When you put something out there and people get to hear it, then those people react to it, socially, culturally.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.
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I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
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I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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For all its terrible faults, in one sense America is still the last, best hope of mankind, because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want, regardless of what they are told they ought to want.
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There have been many times when I've been asked to appear and I'd say to myself, what am I going to talk about? Early on, when I did interviews, I'd tell everyone, Don't ask me about dates. I don't even remember what I did yesterday.
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Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
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Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
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Then in 1969, I spent the spring term at Cornell University in New York. The invasion of August 1968 had already happened, but the hardline regime took several months to crack down on dissidents.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.
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I generally circuit train and do Pilates.
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Peacefulness to be found in writing. Why do I not write every day? Partly because I feel I ought to write well and know I can't. But that is not a good enough reason for not writing, if it gains me poise & peace.
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We have all felt those emotions in these last few days. So what I say to you now, as your queen and as a grandmother, I say from my heart.
