John Niven Quotes

If pushed to say what I like about Elizabeth, who, as I'm sure most of you know, overtook Queen Victoria this week to become our longest-serving monarch, it would be her uncomplaining, getting-on-with-it ethic.

John Niven

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QueenWeekYouKnowSayBecome

I know my destiny. I was born into animosity, bigotry and hatred. We had water for white folks, and water for coloured folks. White lines, black lines. I came from Beaufort in South Carolina, and it was tougher than Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi.

Joe Frazier

WaterDestinyBlackWhiteBornKnow

I would have to say my favorite thing about hosting 'Redneck Island 4' was the cast. They were the most genuine, fun, and down-to-earth Southerners. They just reminded me of the kids I went to school with.

Jessie James Decker

SchoolFunMeSayRedneckGenuine

By the way, I'm funniest when I'm not being funny. I'm better to laugh at than with, pretty much.

Jemima Kirke

FunnyBetterLaughWayBeing Funny

Prairie grassland once covered much of North America's midsection. European settlers turned nearly all of it into farms and ranches, and today the prairie landscape survives mainly in isolated reserves.

Stephen Kinzer

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I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.

Steven Pinker

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Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.

Tom Perez

LookingElectionDonald TrumpNeed

We British and Americans have never been conquered and occupied by the Germans, or forced to make the choice between defiance and collaboration, or haunted by the choices, evasions and moral ambiguities that only a defeated and occupied country can feel.

Michael Korda

CollaborationChoicesFeelChoice

That fascinated me. I used to watch all these operations on TV and thought it would be really cool to do that.

Miranda Otto

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You don't have to go to the kings and queens of the earth - I think the Greeks and Elizabethans did this because it was a logical concept - but every human being is in enormous conflict about something, even if it's how to get to work in the morning and all of that.

Lorraine Hansberry

WorkMorningConflictThinkYouGo

If I had to have my druthers - the best technology, the best cloud... if I had to choose between that and building out a sales force and building out customer support... I would pick the latter.

Diane Greene

TechnologyBestSupportBuildingOut

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'

Desiigner

EvenTracksEnhancing

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Phil McGraw

TruthBestBelieveForwardMaskGo

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