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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It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.
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On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
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When I was a little, little kid, my family got a new washing machine, and they had a big box that was left over. So I cut a big hole in the box, and I made it like a giant TV set. I brought it into the living room, and I did the news and the weather for my family.
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I was supported from every side by my family and by the ministers, but so much also by the people.
