Emperor Quotes - Page 14

• While men compete in war, there will be warriors. While there are warriors, there will be princes among warriors. Among the princes will be kings, and among the kings an emperor.

  David Gemmell

  Kings, War, Men

  "Legend, Pt 1: Against the Horde". Book by David Gemmell, Ch. 28, 1984.

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• Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

  William Shakespeare

  Hamlet Revenge, Fats, Maggots

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1839). “Hamlet”, p.61

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• Lee Marvin was there at the same time, and I knew obviously it was his movie [Emperor Of The North], and Ernie Borgnine was playing the other part in the movie.I met Marvin there at wardrobe, and he said, "What are you doing for lunch?" I said, "Nothing." He said, "C'mon with me!" And he took me to the commissary. I walked into the commissary with Lee Marvin at 20th Century Fox, and he introduced me to people. He said, "This's Keith Carradine. We're doin' this movie together." He was so cool. I mean, my God.

  Keith Carradine

  Mean, Lunch, People

  "Keith Carradine on Deadwood, Fargo, and Madonna". Interview with Will Harris, www.avclub.com. July 20, 2016.

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• 'Tis but worldly policy and compliance with men and times (God's mercy overruling) that holds your hands from the murdering of thousands and ten thousands, were your power and command as great as the bloody Roman emperors' formerly was.

  Roger Williams

  Men, Hands, Mercy

  Source: www.libertymagazine.org

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• The House of Representatives, which was closer to the population, had much less power. The executive was more or less an administrator, not an emperor like today.

  Noam Chomsky

  House, Population, Today

  Interview with Jegan Vincent de Paul, chomsky.info. August 15, 2012.

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• When I am emperor, I will abolish private education. Private schools, private college. All of these parents with money and energy and the drive for bake sales and a desire to leave their vast fortunes to education - everybody would have to be eating out of the same educational pot.

  Ann Patchett

  Educational, School, College

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

  Ai Weiwei

  Cities, People, Rats

  Interview with Claudine Ko, believermag.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I think Malcolm Forbes got kicked out of our school and [Ethiopian Emperor] Hallie Selassie's grandkids went there, too. Because of security reasons you have to go to those schools. We had a privileged life, fine, but also very secure. So I think it's great where the [Barack] Obama daughters are going to school.

  Malaak Shabazz

  Daughter, School, Thinking

  Source: maxblumenthal.com

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• Once I spoke about this subject among a group of English intellectuals. One of them was a professor on Roman Law at one of the leading British universities. I asked him,what was the official language of the Byzantine Empire? He said, maybe sometime in the sixth or the seventh century.The Justinian Codex, the rule of law in the Byzantine Empire which was produced by Emperor Justinian, it was written in Latin.And he looked at me ,he knew that I knew already that the only original copy was found in the beginning of the sixteenth century.

  Garry Kasparov

  Latin, Law, Groups

  Source: www.timothytaylor.ca

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• I think I would have kept in contact with venture capital investors and entrepreneurs. I'm sure staying involved as something like a coach would be fun. If I handed over the reins to a successor, I wouldn't stick around [to pull strings] like a retired emperor.

  Masayoshi Son

  Fun, Thinking, Entrepreneur

  Source: asia.nikkei.com

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