Queens Quotes - Page 23

• I'm the queen of outside speakers.

  Jen Kirkman

  Speakers

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Both of us [me and Donald Trump] were raised to believe that to whom much is given, much will be required. And so for the president-elect that meant that what - he describes himself this way, the kid from Queens would go to Manhattan Island and build the big buildings.

  Mike Pence

  Believe, Kids, Islands

  Source: www.dailyjournal.net

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• I had to learn all the pieces backward and forward [to play it in "Florence Foster Jenkins"]. We practiced on weekends. It was very much like being in school, except it was with Meryl Streep. Like, I would go to her apartment and we would practice Mozart's "Queen of the Night."

  Simon Helberg

  School, Weekend, Night

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• As an Asian American, I'm aware of how stereotypes can be very destructive. We've been defined by the drag queens. And yes, they exist. But we've been defined as irresponsible, flamboyant, loud, and garish. I think what we need to do - and what we haven't done as aggressively as we should have - is to depict the vast diversity of the GLBT community.

  George Takei

  Thinking, Should Have, Diversity

  Source: progressive.org

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• Obama has always been, while President, has been close to the Queen of England, and the Queen of England has a standing policy now, which has been going on for some time, saying that we have to reduce the human population, on this planet, from 7 billion people down to less than 1! That is her avowed policy.

  Lyndon LaRouche

  People, President, England

  Source: larouchepac.com

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• Imagine that Queen Elizabeth I, in her time, had the opportunity to give out a monopoly for playing cards within the kingdom. She knew she was going to give it to one of her courtiers. These courtiers would then all try to curry her favour. Meanwhile, they would not contribute anything to the product of the kingdom, in fact, they were wasting resources trying to secure a single prize. That, more or less, is rent seeking.

  James M. Buchanan

  Opportunity, Giving, Trying

  Source: www.aims.ca

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• The idea that you wake up and it happens that you're Queen, it's amazing but you could all be Queens if you imagined it.

  George Harrison

  Ideas, Wake Up, Happens

  Source: www.fifthestate.org

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• I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day.

  Andrew Cuomo

  Boys, The End Of The Day, Ends

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• I'd like to be a queen in people's hearts but I don't see myself being queen of this country.

  Princess Diana

  Positive, Country, Heart

  Interview on Panorama (television program), 20 Nov. 1995

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• I've been the queen of dysfunction and made every mistake one can make.

  Janice Dickinson

  Mistake, Dysfunction, Made

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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, Kings, Real

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

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• I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in.

  Jesse Eisenberg

  Children, School, Jersey

  Interview with Woody Harrelson, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 28, 2009.

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• Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.

  Elizabeth I

  Son, May, England

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• These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers.

  Rupert Everett

  Gay, Class, Movement

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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

  Kings, Grief, Plot

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

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• I didn't get along with Lindsay Lohan on 'Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen', but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I haven't seen Lindsay since then, but I imagine she's grown and become a different person. I know I have.

  Megan Fox

  Girl, Teenage, Drama

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• I was doing these performance art pop music pieces in the city. And they were a bit on the eccentric side I suppose. So people started to call me Gaga after the Queen song 'Radio Gaga.'

  Lady Gaga

  Song, Art, Cities

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• All of the guests on 'Faces of America' were deeply moved by what we revealed about their ancestry. We were able to trace the ancestry of Native American writer Louise Erdrich back to 438 A.D. We found that Queen Noor is descended from royalty, and that's before she married King Hussein of Jordan.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Kings, Native American, Hussein

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• My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'

  Henry Louis Gates

  Movie, Character, Neighbors And Friends

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• Queen Victoria was loyal and true to the Pope; that is what I was told, and so is Edward the Seventh loyal and true, but he has got something contrary in his body.

  Lady Gregory

  Body, Loyal, Pope

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.528, eBookIt.com

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• My friends and I make short films. We pretended to rob the Dairy Queen where our friend worked, but someone thought we were real thieves and called the cops! Soon, the cops burst in with guns drawn!

  Josh Hartnett

  Real, Gun, Thieves

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• When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.

  Jimi Hendrix

  Trying, Together, Goes On

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• I love 'Somebody to Love' by Queen and of course 'Bohemian Rhapsody' is one of my favorites, just because it makes everyone in the room go crazy. Everyone tries to sing along with it, and half the room gets it right and the other half gets it wrong.

  Faith Hill

  Crazy, Trying, Half

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• My ultimate film role would be to play the queen of soul, Aretha Franklin.

  Jennifer Hudson

  Play, Soul, Would Be

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• I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

  Janis Ian

  Girl, School, Married

  Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975

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