Catherine the Great Quotes
The title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.
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I found that not having a public profile was not hurting the work, and it freed me up to be the satirist I wanted to be.
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Family comes out whenever we know it's gonna be steady on a run that's continuous.
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Americans have not only a right but a responsibility to consider the values of those who seek to lead them - whether they arise from life experience, political ideology or religious belief.
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The less you have, the more you enjoy.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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To swear, except when necessary, is becoming to an honorable man.
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Elaine Equi has been publishing her observant, often playful poetry for some 30 years, extending and deepening the range of her intrinsically wry voice.
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I didn't like my hair and makeup one time on a photo shoot, and my publicist told me, 'You should just be happy with it - they haven't had a black girl on the cover since forever.' She's no longer my publicist.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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Teach For China recruits top American and Chinese college graduates, like 26-year-old Yang Xiao, to teach in the country's most disadvantaged schools.
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Everybody has to be somebody to somebody to be anybody.
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I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.
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The first thing you have to understand is that I was not desperate to be a writer. I was never a closet writer filing away notes in a cupboard.
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I don't want to live on past records.
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Yes, I'm the same grumpy Gautam who smiles very less on the field. I go very quiet before going into the match. I guess it works for me, though my team-mates keep telling me it is just a game.
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I guess when people ask what is the biggest transition to the NBA from college, it is definitely defense and the mental part.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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Pain teaches lessons no scholar can.
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No charm, no humor, no wit -- and a personality which can only be described as 'icky.' .
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Our course heavenward is like the plan of the zealous pilgrim of old, who for every three steps forward, took one backward.
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The very idea of carrying my memory into eternity devastated me, and I took refuge in atheism.
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The artistic impulse seems not to wish to produce finished work. It certainly deserts us half-way, after the idea is born; and if we go on, it is labor.
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The title of Queen rang sweet to my ears, child though I was. ... This idea of a crown began running in my head then like a tune, and has been running a lot in it ever since.
