Kings Quotes - Page 20

• My favorite singer to this day is Nat King Cole. I've tried to emulate his phrasing. It is so absolutely beautiful to listen to his lovely voice.

  Johnny Mathis

  Beautiful, Lovely Voice, Singers

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• I love Bill Clinton. I think we should make him king. I'm talking the red robe, the turkey leg - everything.

  Tim McGraw

  Thinking, Talking, Turkeys

  "The Clinton of country" by Josh Tyrangiel, www.cnn.com. September 13, 2004.

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• There isn't a King Lear for women, or a Henry V, or a Richard III. You reach a level where you can handle that stuff technically and mentally, and it's not there.

  Helen Mirren

  Levels, Stuff, Henry V

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• The true sovereign is not the American president nor the English king, but the Lord of the Second Advent.

  Sun Myung Moon

  President, Sovereign, Advent

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• Television has its own award. It's called the Emmy. It's a good award. I like it. I have one. But you don't see movies like 'The King's Speech' win Oscars and then go to TV and qualify for Emmys. In documentaries, some networks have been able to game the system.

  Michael Moore

  Winning, Awards, Games

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• I die the king's faithful servant, but God's first.

  Thomas More

  Faith, Death, Firsts

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• I have no desire to play King Lear or Hamlet. I never had a grand ambition. I just followed my nose.

  Liam Neeson

  Ambition, Play, Desire

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• Firstly, you must always implicitly obey orders, without attempting to form any opinion of your own respecting their propriety. Secondly, you must consider every man your enemy who speaks ill of your king; and thirdly, you must hate a Frenchman, as you do the devil.

  Horatio Nelson

  Hate, Men, Order

  Horatio Nelson's advice to his Midshipmen (1793) as quoted in "Memoirs of the Life of Vice-Admiral, Lord Viscount Nelson, K.B., Duke of Bronte, Etc., Etc., Etc, Volume 2" edited by Thomas Joseph Pettigrew (p. 580), 1849.

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• In my office in Jerusalem, there's an ancient seal. It's a signet ring of a Jewish official from the time of the Bible. The seal was found right next to the Western Wall, and it dates back 2,700 years, to the time of King Hezekiah. Now, there's a name of the Jewish official inscribed on the ring in Hebrew. His name was Netanyahu.

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Wall, Years, Names

  Benjamin Netanyahu's Remarks to the U.N. General Assembly, www.mfa.gov.il. September 23, 2011.

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• Some time ago, I told Larry King that I planned to live to be 102. I still do.

  Maureen O'Hara

  Stills, Larry

  Maureen O'Hara, John Nicoletti (2005). “'Tis Herself: An Autobiography”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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• My father firmly embraced the Ralph Kramden philosophy: he was king of his Levittown castle. He worked hard, and his family deferred to his wishes. Except me. I did not defer and was disciplined accordingly.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Father, Philosophy, Wish

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• My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.

  Mandy Patinkin

  Jesus, Believe, Breathing

  "Mandy Patinkin: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2012.

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• What I've always said is that I'm opposed to institutional racism, and I would've, had I've been alive at the time, I think, had the courage to march with Martin Luther King to overturn institutional racism, and I see no place in our society for institutional racism.

  Rand Paul

  Courage, Thinking, Racism

  "Rand Paul Says He Has A Tea Party 'Mandate'". Interview with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. May 19, 2010.

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• I can't keep up with Stephen King's output.

  Anne Rice

  Output, I Can

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• Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

  Sally Ride

  Hero, Player, Tennis

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• It was the king's army, the king's people, the king's taxes; and he who questioned the propriety of the royal prerogative of taking from his people without return or accounting, was reckoned, and felt himself to be, a criminal, guilty of the highest crime of disloyalty.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Army, People, Royal

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• I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls.

  Rumi

  Eye, Heaven, Soul

  Jelaluddin Rumi (2005). “The Rumi Collection”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.

  Carlos Santana

  Mother, Eye, Luther

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• No one's better than me. I'm not better than anyone. Whether it's Eric Clapton or BB King we look straight at each other. And that keeps it real.

  Carlos Santana

  Real, Eric, Looks

  "Carlos Santana: 'My daughter beat me at Guitar Hero'" by Peter Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2012.

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• Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation's progress towards the realization of his dream.

  Adam Schiff

  Anniversary, Dream, Opportunity

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• It did remind me of something out of Greek mythology - the richest king who gets everything he wants, but ultimately his family has a curse on it from the Gods.

  Martin Scorsese

  Greek, Want, Mythology

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• I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace.

  Ariel Sharon

  Queens, Years, Trying

  "The Bulldozer". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2001.

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• Dr. King used Gandhi's commitment to non-violence and to passive resistance.

  Al Sharpton

  Commitment, Passive Resistance, Atheism

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• Dr. King's general principles are universal. But the things he confronted took place in another era.

  Al Sharpton

  Principles, Drs, Eras

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• It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

  Al Sharpton

  Vision, Drs, Forgotten

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