[Before each of numerous portrait sittings:] Now then, with teeth or without?
QUEEN ELIZABETH IIFamilies, friends and communities often find a source of courage rising up from within. Indeed, sadly, it seems that it is tragedy that often draws out the most and the best from the human spirit.
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We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy.
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.
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They are not royal. They just happen to have me as their aunt.
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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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It has perhaps always been the case that the waging of peace is the hardest form of leadership of all.
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This new power, which has proved itself to be such a terrifying weapon of destruction, is harnessed for the first time for the common good of our community.
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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I believe that there is a great fear in our generation of being labeled as priggish.
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You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass.
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Think what we would have missed if we had never … used a mobile phone or surfed the Net — or, to be honest, listened to other people talking about surfing the Net.
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It has turned out to be an annus horribilis.
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It’s all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you’re properly trained.
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I should like to be a horse.
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