Kings Quotes - Page 17

• One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

  Hillary Clinton

  Careers, Hype, Judging

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• Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.

  Gail Collins

  Husband, School, Winning

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• As great as kings may be, they are what we are: they can err like other men.

  Pierre Corneille

  Men, May

  "Le Cid". Book by Pierre Corneille, 1636.

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• A true king is neither husband nor father; he considers his throne and nothing else.

  Pierre Corneille

  Husband, Father, Power

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• Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

  Bryan Cranston

  Supportive, Hollywood, Want

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• I hope I'm remembered as the king of the world, the noble man who united all the nations of the earth. But that probably won't happen.

  Macaulay Culkin

  Men, Noble Man, World

  Macaulay Culkin (2006). “Junior”, Miramax Books

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• On cable now, the writer is king. Any actor chases that.

  Jeff Daniels

  Actors, Cables

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• Yes, I think it's really important to acknowledge that Dr. King, precisely at the moment of his assassination, was re-conceptualizing the civil rights movement and moving toward a sort of coalitional relationship with the trade union movement.

  Angela Davis

  Moving, Thinking, Rights

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• We can't answer King's assassination with violence. That would be the worst tribute we could pay him.

  Sammy Davis, Jr.

  Would Be, Answers, Pay

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• Doing something because God has said to do it does not make a person moral: it merely tells us that person is a prudential believer, akin to the person who obeys the command of an all-powerful secular king.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Powerful, Doe, Moral

  Alan Dershowitz (2009). “Letters to a Young Lawer (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.193, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Fathers Day, Dad, Son

  Marlene Dietrich (2012). “Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes”, p.45, Open Road Media

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• King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Talking, Political, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.5026, Delphi Classics

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• I grew up in Ohio, where civil-rights accomplishments had already begun to accelerate before Martin Luther King appeared. In hindsight, we know that many people, black and white, were instrumental in changing the Jim Crow status quo on all levels.

  Rita Dove

  Black And White, Rights, Ohio

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• The greatest king of Israel, King David, the author of the Psalms, sent a man out to die in battle so that he could sleep with his wife.

  Robert Duvall

  Sleep, Men, Israel

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• I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

  Bob Dylan

  Wings, Impressed

  Song: Is Your Love In Vain ?, Album: Street Legal, 1978

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• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  Umberto Eco

  Song, Queens, Real

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve.

  King Edward VIII

  Country, Years, Mind

  Broadcast, 11 Dec. 1936, in The Times 12 Dec. 1936

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• I went to Saudi Arabia in 2010, and spent most of my time in Jeddah and the King Abdullah Economic City.

  Dave Eggers

  Cities, Arabia, Economic

  "Dave Eggers: 'We tend to look everywhere but the mirror' - interview". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2013.

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• Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet.

  George Eliot

  Life, Death, Pain

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.401

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• My inspirations include the Beatles - love, love, love them - Elton John, Carole King, and Stevie Wonder.

  Gloria Estefan

  Inspiration, Wonder, Beatles Love

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• I wrote poetry, which got me into lyrics. Stevie Wonder, Carole King, Elton John pulled me into pop. I started singing with a band - just for fun - when I was 17. And pretty soon, I was thinking I could sing pop in English as well as Spanish.

  Gloria Estefan

  Fun, Thinking, Singing

  "Gloria Estefan: 'Like Coming Home, But Not to the Old Cuba'". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2007.

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• My mom was an amazing singer and music was a big part of my life, so I grew up listening to Nat King Cole, Johnny Mathis, Henry Mancini; I used to watch 'The Andy Williams Show' on TV. I was very musical, so I was watching stuff that most kids my age wouldn't be interested in.

  Gloria Estefan

  Mom, Kids, Listening

  Interview with Mike Ragogna, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2013.

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• Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Real, Islamic, Leader

  "The Agitator" by Margaret Talbot, www.newyorker.com. June 5, 2006.

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• I'd hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dancefloor. I was interested in that. I can't make electronic beats, so I leave it to the pros like Boys Noize and Chromeo.

  Feist

  Beautiful, Song, Boys

  "Is this it?". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.

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• The king died and then the queen died is a story. The king died, and then queen died of grief is a plot.

  E. M. Forster

  Queens, Grief, Plot

  E. M. Forster (1954). “Aspects Of the Novel”

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