Margrethe Ii Quotes

#1. One shouldn't write one's own epitaph. I hope people will remember me as one who did her best - and who wasn't an anachronism.

Margrethe II Of Denmark

#2. Psychoanalysis and dianetics are, on the face of it, both absurd. People are what they are because of causes that go infinitely farther back than infancy of the mother's womb

Clark Ashton Smith

#3. ...there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self-righteous kooks are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. There are, of course, always painters whom I admire and find fascinating. I've often thought, 'Goodness, if I could paint like the Danish Golden Age painters, the early 19th century painters, the way they could paint a landscape - absolutely beautiful.'

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#5. I smoke wherever there's an ashtray.

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#6. The man who does the greatest harm is the man who does nothing at all.

Galen Beckett

#7. There is something endearing about people who give themselves up completely to their faith. But there is likewise something frightening about such a totality, which also is a feature of Islam.

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#8. Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it.

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#9. Sometimes I feel bad for the girls because they aren't exactly the sharpest tools in the shed. In fact, they're more like a couple of dull butter knives that were left in the grass outside of the shed.

Charlie McDowell

#10. I will remain on the throne until I fall off.

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#11. I can, of course, think what I want, just like everyone else. I simply have to refrain from saying everything I think.

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#12. As far as I am concerned now, I have no enemies in the press whatsoever.

Richard M. Nixon

#13. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.

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#14. We are being challenged by Islam these years. There are some things for which one should display no tolerance. And when we are tolerant, we must know whether it is because of convenience or conviction.

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#15. I hope I will be able to paint as long as I live.

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