Charles XII of Sweden Quotes

I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

Charles XII of Sweden

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• I also didn't consider myself a huge baby person.

  

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• I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

  

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• I retreat to my cave in a very male fashion.

  

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• The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

  

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• There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is.

  

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• I remember being about eight and watching 'Pollyanna' with Hayley Mills. I looked at my mum and said, 'Mum, I want to be Pollyanna.' She said, 'You're going to have to make yourself cry if you want to be an actress.' So I turned my head away, and when I turned it back I was in floods of tears.

  

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• For me, a great fantasy is real people, a world I recognise, human struggle and magic. You've got to have magic to make a fantasy work. But I like my magic to be subtle. I don't want magic coming out of the hands of wizards. I want it to be pervading, sinister somehow.

  

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• I completely took off my eyebrows one time for a screen test. I hadn't even gotten the role yet. So you have to have a commitment.

  

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• It's a crazy world, stardom. I don't even think of myself as a star. I just like to go to work.

  

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• SMALL SONG The reeds give way to the windand give the wind away

  

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• 'Smirking in the Boys’ Room', Rebecca Traister, The Cut, Jan 2016

  

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• Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,And sinks into my throat her tiger’s tooth,Stealing my breath of life, I will confessI love this cultured hell that tests my youth!

  

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• I'm prone to breaking out on my chest and back because I work out a lot.

  

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• In every school, more boys wanted to be remembered as a star athlete than as a brilliant student.

  

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• You know, for most seniors Medicare is their only form of health care.

  

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• What I think and what the world thinks is totally different.

  

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• You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

  

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• Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone, Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone. Silence the pianos and with muffled drum Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

  

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• I find it amazing that the only group of people who are not fighting and not killing and not pillaging and not burning and not raping, and the group of people who are mostly — though not exclusively — who are keeping life going in the midst of war, are not included in the negotiating table.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • People
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• I have resolved never to start an unjust war, but never to end a legitimate one except by defeating my enemies.

  

  Charles XII of Sweden
  • War
  • Enemies
  • Legitimate