Margrethe II of Denmark Quotes
I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
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Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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Isolation is a self-defeating dream.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'
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We're all idealistic when young.
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I am not a hound; I am an attention-seeker. Very different animal. My kind of attention requires greater finesse.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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I try to make my fans happy by working hard in every film of mine, and I give my films everything I've got.
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The beauty of the Democratic Party is in the mix.
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One thing is that I wasn't getting booked that well, and they had control over who got the awards, they had control over who sold. And they really did not want Willie or me, either one, to have a hit record. They wanted the money, but they didn't want us to be the ones.
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In life, there's no such thing as an unmitigated good.
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Boys never liked me at school. They made fun of me 'cos I had dark skin.
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I would say I don't like people who are really into themselves or are very materialistic. Just always talking themselves up. Not being real is the pet peeve. Be true to yourself.
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In a broader sense, the rhythms of nature, large and small - the sounds of wind and water, the sounds of birds and insects - must inevitably find their analogues in music.
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The little people must be sacred to the big ones, and it is from the rights of the weak that the duty of the strong is comprised.
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There's no such thing as ageing gracefully. I don't meet people who want to get Alzheimer's disease, or who want to get cancer or arthritis or any of the other things that afflict the elderly. Ageing is bad for you, and we better just actually accept that.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
