Queens Quotes - Page 32

• Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper.

  Voltaire

  World, Usurpers, Twenties

  Voltaire (1824). “A Philosophical Dictionary”, p.135

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• One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.

  Calvin Trillin

  Christian, Kings, White

  Calvin Trillin (1987). “Uncivil liberties”, Penguin Group USA

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• The Royal Family are not like you and me. They live in houses so big that you can walk round all day and never need to meet your spouse. The Queen and Prince Philip have never shared a bedroom in their lives. They don't even have breakfast together.

  A. N. Wilson

  Family, House, Together

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• In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose faces appeared in such publications as Town and Queen could afford to eat in restaurants serving food which would leave them looking and feeling better instead of worse.

  Clive James

  Funny, Humorous, Home

  Clive James (2012). “Always Unreliable: Memoirs”, p.307, Pan Macmillan

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• Jews have deep respect for the Queen and the royal family. We say a prayer for them every Sabbath in synagogue. We recite a special blessing on seeing the Queen.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Prayer, Blessing, Special

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• We do not always appreciate the role the Queen has played in one of the most significant changes in the past 60 years: the transformation of Britain into a multi-ethnic, multi-faith society. No one does interfaith better than the Royal family, and it starts with the Queen herself.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Past, Years, Significant Change

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• I want to be so famous that drag queens will dress like me in parades when I'm dead.

  Laura Kightlinger

  Dresses, Want, Parades

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

  Henry Watson Fowler

  Humor, Legends, Desks

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• You don't forget crises and neither does the Queen.

  John Major

  Doe, Forget, Crisis

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• If I was not a remarkably modest man, I should probably brag a little, and say that I had done what no American ever before accomplished by visiting the queen at her palace twice within eight days.

  P. T. Barnum

  Humility, Men, Eight

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• And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company.

  Thomas Malory

  Loss, Knights, Together

  Thomas Malory (1998). “Le Morte Darthur : The Winchester Manuscript”, p.481, Oxford Paperbacks

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• To even be called the 'teen queen' is crazy.

  Victoria Justice

  Crazy

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• I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein.

  Michael Bergin

  Two, Long, Guy

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• I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.

  Darren Criss

  Running, Mean, Names

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• Italy to me is like the mean mother. Whatever I do, it's never good enough. People say I'm the queen of Cannes, but in Italy I get turned down for work.

  Asia Argento

  Mother, Mean, People

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My favorite type of music to sing to would be rock and roll, Tenacious D, Led Zeppelin, some Queen - I love all of them. I love singing to them because they're all just great voices. I love listening to very obscure jazz.

  Casey Abrams

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, Voice

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• Whenever I'm feeling kind of down or something like that, or even good, the song 'Bohemian Rhapsody' by Queen is a go-to song of mine. It's like watching a movie, but with your ears.

  Casey Abrams

  Song, Feelings, Ears

  "‘American Idol’s’ Casey Abrams on hanging with Scotty McCreery and his best buddy". Interview with Melinda Newman, uproxx.com. June 21, 2012.

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• I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

  Elliott Abrams

  Mother, Teacher, New York

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• Never once does Snow White herself look in the mirror so she isn't aware of her beauty or what apparently that does to people. It's really just the queen and the prince that talk about it.

  Lily Collins

  Mirrors, White, People

  "Interview: Actress Lily Collins on 'Mirror Mirror,' Modern Day Princes, Beauty in Hollywood". Interview with Eryn Sun, www.christianpost.com. March 27, 2012.

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• There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Summer, Country, Stars

  "Q+A: Lizzy Caplan, Funnywoman". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 26, 2012.

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• I gained a first class degree in Physics at Imperial College London in 1968 and did research in solid state physics, but did not pursue meteorology matters until gaining an M.Sc. in astrophysics from Queen Mary College London in 1981, after which I investigated and attempted to construct theories of solar activity.

  Piers Corbyn

  College, Class, London

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• I went to Queen's University Belfast and stayed nine months, then I ran away to be an actor.

  Simon Callow

  Actors, Nine, Months

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• I worked in television; I'm the Failed Pilot Queen, I've done so many television shows, pilots, theater ... when you do it for so long, I'm telling you, you get to the point where it becomes varied because you take what's available for a number of reasons. It's just an occupational hazard.

  Viola Davis

  Numbers, Long, Hazards

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• I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Kings, Years, Comedy

  "Lou Ferrigno On Set Interview - I LOVE YOU, MAN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2008.

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• I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me.

  Lou Ferrigno

  Kings, Fun, People

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