It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIYou need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
More Queen Elizabeth II Quotes
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The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I hope people will think very carefully about the future.
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[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn’t a servant because they don’t slam doors.
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To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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The British Constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
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[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
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[To the suggestion that Great Britain might someday want a Republic:] We’ll go quietly.
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Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendour that are gone but a declaration of our hopes for the future, and for the years I may, by God’s Grace and Mercy, be given to reign and serve you as your Queen.
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I don’t like to badmouth people. But I’m the head of a monarchy that began in the ninth century, and I’m apparently more modern than Chris Christie.
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
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[On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It’s unfair. If a man looks solemn, it’s automatically assumed he’s a serious person, not a miserable one.
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[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You’d better answer that. It could be someone important.
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They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. …
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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