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• My mother says I was two-and-a-half when I started playing. My father was a minister, and when he went to church in the morning, she would put on Fats Waller, Billie Holiday, Nat King Cole and Cole Porter records. I'd crawl up on the piano stool, sit on a phone book and play.

  Tori Amos

  Mother, Morning, Father

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• Since God had commanded it, it was necessary that I do it. Since God commanded it, even if I had a hundred fathers and mothers, even if I had been a King's daughter, I would have gone nevertheless.

  Joan of Arc

  Mothers Day, Daughter, Father

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• It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.

  Joan of Arc

  Cities, Paris, Fifteen

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• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Joan of Arc

  Keys, Heaven, Debt

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• With a goose-quill and a few sheets of paper, I mock myself of the universe. They say I am the son of a courtesan; it may be so, but I have the heart of a King. I live free, I enjoy myself, I can call myself happy.

  Pietro Aretino

  Heart, Son, Paper

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• I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office.

  Michele Bachmann

  Office, Opinion, Ability

  "Bachmann: No 2012 Presidential Run For Me, But Steve King Should Go For It" by Elyse Siegel, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I did my first movie, "The Mambo Kings," in America without speaking the language. I learned the lines phonetically. I had an interpreter actually just to understand directions from my director.

  Antonio Banderas

  Movie, America, Directors

  "Actor Antonio Banderas". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. October 18, 2011.

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• That is the great mistake about the affections. It is not the rise and fall of empires, the birth and death of kings, or the marching of armies that move them most. When they answer from their depths, it is to the domestic joys and tragedies of life.

  Amelia Barr

  Mistake, Moving, Fall

  Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.170, Litres

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• The actor is too prone to exaggerate his powers; he wants to play Hamlet when his appearance is more suitable to King Lear.

  Sarah Bernhardt

  Play, Actors, Want

  Sarah Bernhardt (1924). “The Art of the Theatre”

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• As civilisation advances, the deities lessen in number, the divine powers become concentrated more and more in one Being, and God rules over the whole earth, maketh the clouds his chariot, and reigns above the waterfloods as a king.

  Annie Besant

  Numbers, Clouds, Earth

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.225, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Grease, Slippery

  Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.12, 谷月社

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• Thanks to farm subsidies, the fine collaboration between agribusiness and Congress, soy, corn and cattle became king. And chicken soon joined them on the throne. It was during this period that the cycle of dietary and planetary destruction began, the thing we're only realizing just now.

  Mark Bittman

  Corn, Collaboration, Thrones

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• The leaders who we admire who have been able to bring great change in the past - Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela - they're all inspirational religious leaders and smart tacticians. It would be nice to find the Muslim Gandhi, wouldn't it?

  Dennis C. Blair

  Religious, Nice, Smart

  "Former US spy chief sees shift toward Asia". Interview with Elizabeth Dickinson, www.csmonitor.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Your part can be the king, but unless people are treating you like royalty, you ain't no king, man.

  Jeff Bridges

  Men, People, Royalty

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• What I like about cities is that everything is king size, the beauty and the ugliness.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Beauty, Cities, Size

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• What holds an Arab leader in power is a mixture of violence and prestige. Both President Assad and King Hussein were felt to have defended Arab interests against the world. That, in the end, is more important than what they wear on their head.

  James Buchan

  Leader, Important, President

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• It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Arrogance

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• It is also interesting to note that the original supermodels are now making a comeback after being dismissed in the Nineties as being 'greedy' by a gaggle of male designers who lived like Sun Kings.

  Julie Burchill

  Interesting, Males, Sun

  "Do women really need life tips from gay men?" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2008.

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• There's nothing secret about it. Everyone knows that I am waiting for my real parents, the king and queen, to come restore me to my rightful throne.

  Meg Cabot

  Queens, Real, Waiting

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• I started at Pillsbury as a manager in one of their analysis functions, then worked my way up the corporate ladder to become vice president. Moving to Burger King was an important moment in my career.

  Herman Cain

  Moving, Careers, Important

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• Whether you were talking about Pillsbury, Burger King, Godfather's, the National Restaurant Association, in each one of those situations, I had a daunting problem that I had to solve. And I used the same business principles to approach the problem and, more importantly, solve the problem in every one of the situations.

  Herman Cain

  Talking, Principles, Burgers

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• Half a century ago, the amazing courage of Rosa Parks, the visionary leadership of Martin Luther King, and the inspirational actions of the civil rights movement led politicians to write equality into the law and make real the promise of America for all her citizens.

  David Cameron

  Leadership, Real, Writing

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• I don't think I had a script on 'King Kong.' But usually you read a script and then you go and audition for it. It's rare when there's no script. I sort of like the latter better, because I'm more successful at it.

  Kyle Chandler

  Successful, Thinking, Scripts

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

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• I listened to King Oliver and I listened to Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, Thelonious Monk, Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Archie Shepp... I listened to everything I could that came from that place that they call the blues but, in formality, isn't necessarily the blues.

  Eric Clapton

  Jelly, Monk, Armstrong

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• I have walked majestically with kings and queens and presidents and other heads of states.

  John Henrik Clarke

  Queens, President, States

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