George VI Quotes

There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

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• At the very end, what is going to happen is that immigration will be reduced considerably. And how can we get to that stage? By agreements on sectors.

  

  Vicente Fox
  • End
  • Stage
  • Immigration

• The classical example of a successful research programme is Newton's gravitational theory: possibly the most successful research programme ever.

  

  Imre Lakatos
  • Successful
  • Research
  • Theory

• I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Me
  • Person
  • Planet

• We've been blessed with four beautiful children. Michael, he doesn't have much of a problem anymore. He is high functional, probably because of early intervention.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Children
  • High
  • Beautiful

• The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Blood
  • Old
  • England

• I'll admit it: I'm a control freak. I am. If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it 110% or there's no point in doing it at all, especially if the work takes me away from time with my husband and children.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• I'm a soccer mom. I'm T-ball, soccer, karate, homework, keeping them on their schedules. I love being the snack mom, when I get to bring the cut oranges. I have one of those coolers with wheels. I'm at every game, every practice, sitting on my blanket. I love it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Love
  • Game
  • Mom

• Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.

  

  Patrick Macnee
  • Love
  • Crime
  • For Him

• If people don't have a job, they're not too interested in how you intend for them to have a job. They want to see results.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Job
  • Want

• I want to live in a place where strangers rush to help someone in distress.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Live
  • Help
  • Want

• I was looking for something like baseball, where there's a lot of data and the competition was pretty low. That's when I discovered politics.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Pretty
  • Politics
  • Baseball

• I like being married. I'm at home with my wife and kids all the time now. I don't go out for wild nights.

  

  Jack Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Kids

• In a way, architecture is about communication. That's an aspect of the discipline that is somewhat lacking, and there's definitely room for more progression into that area. I suppose that gives me a bit of a different edge. I'm also very, very used to doing a lot of exhaustive research and finding interesting information from different sources.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Different
  • Interesting
  • Discipline

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• For me to be with someone, he's got to be fit. Or at least doing something he loves. Following your passion - whether it's hiking or sports or whatever - is super sexy.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Passion
  • Sports
  • Sexy

• I feel fortunate that I'm not a beauty. I'm not a classic beauty. I feel it is harder for girls who are like that. There are fewer parts.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Feel
  • Beauty
  • Classic

• I was excited by the idea of playing a Nazi.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • Idea
  • Playing
  • Excited

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• If I'm afraid of someone on the street, I'll turn to him (it's always a boy) and say, "Excuse me, do you happen to know what time it is?" This is my way of saying to the person, "I see you as a friend, and there is no need to hurt me or take my stuff. Also, I don't even have a watch and I am probably not worth mugging." So far, it's worked like gangbusters... And I've discovered that most people I'm afraid of are actually very friendly.

  

  Rebecca Stead
  • People
  • Persons
  • Happens

• Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • Together
  • Environmental

• I don't usually like a smoky eye; if there is any smokiness, it's got to be a light color.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Light
  • Eye
  • Color

• Further, it would take one of those impossible coincidences that the Modern Liberal relies on so heavily to explain how it is that the two most religious nations in the Western World - the United States and Israel - are also arguably the world's two most scientifically and technologically advanced.

  

  Evan Sayet
  • World
  • Religious
  • Politics

• I think some of the best modern writing comes now from travellers.

  

  Michael Palin
  • Writing
  • Think
  • Modern

• There is great weight in the modern times of being monarch, the scrutiny and access is much more than in times gone by.

  

  George VI
  • Modern
  • Gone
  • Scrutiny