Kings Quotes - Page 21

• When you are a rock star in front of 20,000 people, you receive instant gratification. A rock star on tour is a king in his domain.

  Gene Simmons

  Stars, Rocks, People

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• In 1974, when I started working with the material that became Horses, a lot of our great voices had died. We'd lost Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison and Janis Joplin, and people like Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Malcolm X.

  Patti Smith

  Horse, Voice, People

  "Patti Smith: punk poet queen". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2013.

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• From time to time, you have seminal personalities who really change the way the world sees itself - people like Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Nelson Mandela. Warren Buffett is that kind of person in the business world.

  Guy Spier

  People, Personality, World

  "Buffett lunch: $650,000 to eat with legendary investor" by Andrew Clark, www.theguardian.com. July 3, 2007.

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• The desertion of Jesus, by his followers, furnishes an argument in support of the supposition that he attempted to be king of the Jews, rather than that he was a superior being.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Support, Followers

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• We're all expendable. We think the world's going to stop when a pope dies, or a king. And then... life goes on.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Thinking, Life Going On, Goes On

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• People will come up to me everywhere and say, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Larry King,'' and, 'Ah, I saw you on 'Oprah.'' And it's really nice, and a lot of people say, 'Is it a pain?' And I say 'No.' And it's not annoying.

  Mattie Stepanek

  Pain, Nice, People

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• The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.

  Wallace Stevens

  Morning, Thrones, Sitting

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.73, Univ of California Press

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• The world is so full of a number of things, I'm sure we should all be as happy as kings.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Happiness, Famous Inspirational, Science

  A Child's Garden of Verses "Happy Thought" l. 1 (1885)

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• I was raised in Arizona, and I went to public school, and the extent of my knowledge of the civil-rights movement was the story of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr. I wonder how much my generation knows.

  Emma Stone

  School, Rights, Generations

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• I took an interest in the Civil Rights Movement. I listened to Martin Luther King. The Vietnam War was raging. When I was 18, I was eligible for the draft, but when I went to be tested, I didn't qualify.

  Radhanath Swami

  War, Rights, Vietnam

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• Actually, King Abdullah, under his supervision and guidance, has established a dialogue in Saudi Arabia whereby all the population, whether Shiite or Sunnis from north, south, west or east, they can get together and exchange their views.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Views, Together, Arabia

  Interview with Maria Bartiromo, www.cnbc.com. March 11, 2011.

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• Saudi Arabia has stability. The social contract and the political contract between the king and the rulers and the royal family and the ruled people in Saudi Arabia is very strong and the bondage is so solid.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Strong, People, Political

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

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• You know, in Saudi Arabia, there is a body of 40 people - 34 people exactly, that once the succession comes, they will meet and they will elect a king in there.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  People, Arabia, Body

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

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• By blood a king, in heart a clown.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Heart, Blood, Clown

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• Authority forgets a dying king.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Death, Dying, Forget

  'Idylls of the King' (1842-85) 'The Passing of Arthur' (1869) l. 289

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• Amongst the minds of animals that of man leads, not as a demigod from another planet, but as a king from the same race.

  Edward Thorndike

  Animal, Men, Race

  Edward Lee Thorndike (1924). “The Evolution of the Human Intellect”

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• He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar.

  Pete Townshend

  Guitar, Links, Rock N Roll

  "Link Wray" by Garth Cartwright, www.theguardian.com. November 21, 2005.

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• Almost the only persons who may be said to comprehend even approximately the significance, principles, and purposes of Socialism are the chief leaders of the extreme wings of the Socialistic forces, and perhaps a few of the money kings themselves.

  Benjamin Tucker

  Wings, Leader, Principles

  Benjamin Ricketson Tucker (1972). “State Socialism and Anarchism and Other Essays”, Ralph Myles Pub

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• I have three daughters and I find as a result I played King Lear almost without rehearsal.

  Peter Ustinov

  Daughter, Honesty, Three

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• Some men look great unshaven; others just look like they forgot to shave. Beards and mustaches can be really distinctive if you go for an earthy, rock-and-roll look like the Kings of Leon or the Killers.

  Donatella Versace

  Men, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The honorable William Penn, late governor of Pennsylvania, was chosen agent to the Court of Britain, and directed to deliver the petition to the King himself and to endeavor by his personal influence to procure a favorable reception to this last address.

  Mercy Otis Warren

  Pennsylvania, Agents, Addresses

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• I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

  Denzel Washington

  Movie, Father, Kids

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• You supposed to be able to do anything in this world. That's what Martin Luther King told me.

  Lil Wayne

  World, Able, Luther

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• Last year when "Black Swan," "True Grit" and "King's Speech" all grossed over $100 million, it gave studios and independent financiers the confidence to make daring movies. You know, and not do the same old you-know-what.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Independent, Swans, Years

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. December 2, 2011.

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• Nothing shocks me anymore. I've embraced men in thongs, I've embraced women with padded bras. I mean, I can embrace Larry King saying 'fierce.'

  Johnny Weir

  Mean, Men, Fierce

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