Royalty Quotes - Page 5

• Don't you understand, mister, you are royalty and God has chosen you to be priest of your home?

  Tony Evans

  Home, Scary, Priests

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• Here's the way the licensing works ... If you write a song, nobody can record your song before you do without your permission. But, once the song is recorded, they can get what's called a 'compulsory license', and they can record the tune, but they have to pay you royalties.

  Frank Zappa

  Song, Writing, Pay

  Source: afka.net

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• Oh, I know my family's not of royal blood, but you needn't throw it in my face all the time.

  Robert N. Lee

  Family, Blood, Faces

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• The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.

  Jimmy Breslin

  Office, Democracy, President

  Jimmy Breslin (2012). “How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer”, p.40, Open Road Media

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• The e-book revolution has made it very easy to pay writers a good deal less than what their work is worth. I do strongly believe that we writers ought to hold out for much better royalties.

  Philip Pullman

  Book, Believe, Pay

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I type even faster than I talk. I'm very proud of that. I type so fast. And I have to because the characters are living in real time and I've got to keep up with them. It's a miracle they even give me a royalty.

  Rupert Holmes

  Real, Character, Giving

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• These are clothes my friends and I could wear. This ain't Prada. I don't want to be one of those celebrities that slaps their name on a label and collects royalty checks. Everything on that runway reflects me.

  Nicky Hilton

  Names, Clothes, Labels

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• We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus clowns.

  Nicolas Cage

  Stars, Complaining, Circus

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• People say we need royalty. We have royalty in the United States - the Kardashians.

  David Letterman

  People, United States, Needs

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• No God and no religion can survive ridicule. No political church, no nobility, no royalty or other fraud, can face ridicule in a fair field, and live.

  Mark Twain

  God, Political, Religion

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• Upper class to me means you are either born into wealth or you're Royalty.

  Benedict Cumberbatch

  Mean, Class, Wealth

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• Many Canadian nationalists harbour the bizarre fear that should we ever reject royalty, we would instantly mutate into Americans, as though the Canadian sense of self is so frail and delicate a bud, that the only thing stopping it from being swallowed whole by the US is an English lady in a funny hat.

  Will Ferguson

  Humorous, Self, Stopping

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• In the early days of films, the movie star in this country replaced royalty. They've been demoted since then but they're still treated as beings larger than life.

  Paul Newman

  Country, Stars, Larger Than Life

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

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• I say that is wine," Brett held up her glass. "We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'" "This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste." Brett's glass was empty.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Drinking, Wine, Glasses

  Ernest Hemingway (1926). “The Sun Also Rises”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• After traveling through fourteen foreign countries and appearing before all the royalty and nobility I have only one wish today. That is that when my eyes are closed in death that they will bury me back in that quiet little farm land where I was born.

  Annie Oakley

  Country, Eye, Land

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• I hear that whenever someone in the White House tells a lie, Nixon gets a royalty.

  Johnny Carson

  Lying, White, House

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• My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of - or reincarnated from - royalty is nothing Like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another
  human being; blessedness comes from God.

  Duke Ellington

  Mother, Blessed, Taken

  Duke Ellington (1973). “Music is my mistress”, Doubleday Books

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• After going through years of litigation to get royalties due to him, the guy who coined the term 'happily ever after' lived reasonably well for a while.

  Demetri Martin

  Years, Guy, Ever After

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• [To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We'll go quietly.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Suggestions, Republic, Want

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• Protocol may be defined as the code of etiquette which protects royalty from the competition of intellectual and social superiors.

  Elsa Maxwell

  Competition, Intellectual, May

  Elsa Maxwell (1954). “R.S.V.P.: Elsa Maxwell's Own Story”

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• There is not a single crowned head in Europe whose talents or merit would entitle him to be elected a vestryman by the people of any parish in America.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Europe, America, People

  Thomas Jefferson, Jerry Holmes (2002). “Thomas Jefferson: A Chronology of His Thoughts”, p.98, Rowman & Littlefield

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• I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

  Aaron Watson

  Giving, Work Ethic, Fans

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• I swear again, I would not be a queen
  For all the world.

  William Shakespeare

  Queens, World, Swear

  'Henry VIII' (1613) act 2, sc. 2, l. 45

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• These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual.

  Aristotle

  Kings, Government, Law

  Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3028, Delphi Classics

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• It would not be difficult to be a better ruler than I was: for I admit that I ruled badly; and even if I was fortunate enough to satisfy my subjects, I was not fortunate enough to satisfy myself.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Enough, Difficult, Subjects

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