We’ve collected the best Elizabeth Quotes from the greatest minds of the world: Robert Gottlieb, Richard Dawkins, Dave Brubeck, Jennifer Palmieri, Debbie Reynolds. Use them as an inspiration.
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There are certain historical figures of such importance that we need to know everything about them, which is why books about Napoleon, Lincoln, Julius Caesar, Joan of Arc, Queen Elizabeth I, and the great religious founders continue to proliferate; these lives require constant reevaluation and interpretation.
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The love of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy is reliant on the restrictions of Regency culture, their passion is created by repression.
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When the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret were growing up, that was at it’s height and the War cemented that with photographs of the Royal Family having breakfast together and so on, by pinning their reputation so firmly on that particular issue.
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Elizabeth Bishop in particular had a big impact on me personally as well as artistically. Her insistence on clarity is something I rate very highly.
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I’m absolutely an Elizabeth Taylor fan!
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Was Prince Philip in love when he proposed to Elizabeth? At the time, he was a relatively penniless prince, with a rackety family and no home to call his own.
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I was obsessed with Miss Elizabeth when I was a little girl.
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I am a huge admirer of Elizabeth I, and this intriguing biography gives a wonderful picture of the era.
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She is the rock ‘n’ roll queen. Weirdly enough, that is one of the things her reign will be remembered for. Queen Elizabeth I, we remember Raleigh; Queen Elizabeth II it’s gonna be the Beatles.
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The first Elizabeth film was an absolute travesty historically. It really was sloppy. Things like ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ and ‘The Tudors,’ people’s perception is distorted because of these. It matters to me as a historian, because I spend my life trying to get it right.
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I was at a benefit for some imprisoned students in the ’60s at San Francisco State, and there were lots of poets reading for the benefit: one was Elizabeth Bishop.
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It will be about which candidate, which of the two candidates remaining, is best suited to make a positive difference in the lives of North Carolina families, and I submit to each of you tonight that I am that candidate and Elizabeth Dole is not.
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When I was writing my first novel, ‘Elizabeth is Missing,’ I was writing the only novel I had ever written and writing about the only protagonist I’d ever written about. Because of this, I didn’t think of her as a construct. Maud was real.
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It’s hard to describe the work of the British-born Australian writer Elizabeth Jolley without somewhat misrepresenting it.
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People who know me well, call me Elizabeth. I dislike Liz.
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Maybe Rock and Elizabeth Warren could team up and shore up each other’s weaknesses. Elizabeth Warren has a plan for everything and all the experience, and The Rock could sell it to the people, ’cause the people could smell what Rock is cooking.
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There are no more Elizabeth Taylors. You could be fascinated by her, she lived so many lives, she lived far, she loved the jewels; she had gaudy taste but she had extraordinary talent.
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth – she’s Elizabeth the Second. There’s only one Imelda.
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I’m probably as royal as Elizabeth Warren is Cherokee.
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‘What I would give,’ I thought, ‘to have been present as Elizabeth Keckley measured Mary Lincoln for a new gown, to overhear their conversations on topics significant and ordinary, to observe the Lincoln White House from such an intimate perspective.’
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Elizabeth Warren never stops raising the alarm about climate change and raging about the billionaires.
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I’d like to be Queen Elizabeth.
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The blue-collar is not supposed to read Horace, nor the farmer in his overalls Montale or Marvell. Nor, for that matter, is the politician expected to know by heart Gerard Manley Hopkins or Elizabeth Bishop. This is dumb as well as dangerous.
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He’s not very fast, but maybe Elizabeth Taylor can’t sing.
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Elizabeth Taylor. In her heyday, she was amazing.
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Had Elizabeth Bennet known how wildly Darcy’s heart beat for her, ‘Pride and Prejudice‘ would barely have made it into a short story. Their torturously slow-burning romance is a classic example of how men and women still struggle to communicate the most basic of emotions.
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There’s a movie called ‘Elizabeth: The Golden Age,’ where I’m playing the King of Spain. It’s a small role, but it’s really, really interesting, the way I constructed it.
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In 2006, 2 years ago, I made a very serious mistake. A mistake that I am responsible for and no one else. In 2006, I told Elizabeth about the mistake, asked her for her forgiveness, asked God for his forgiveness.
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Mary Lincoln provided Elizabeth Keckley with opportunities for social and economic advancement she probably had never imagined during her years as a slave, while Elizabeth offered Mary the loyal, steadfast friendship she craved but had always found so elusive.
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My first husband ran off with Elizabeth Taylor.
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The question is – did Richard Attenborough have a right to make ‘Gandhi?’ And did Danny Boyle have a right to make ‘Slumdog Millionaire?’ Quite honestly, if they didn’t have the right to make these films, I had no right to make ‘Elizabeth.’
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The thing with Elizabeth Warren that you have to keep in mind is she is very far left. I think a lot of folks who may have considered voting for someone like Joe Biden are going to be very turned off by ideas like universal health care, which would essentially force 200 million Americans off of private health insurance.
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In 1978, Elizabeth Blackburn, working with Joe Gall, identified the DNA sequence of telomeres. Every time a cell divides, it gets shorter. But telomeres usually don’t. So there must be something happening to the telomeres to keep their length in equilibrium.
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I’m friends with Elizabeth Banks – she’s a great actress but not actressy at all. She’s very cool. I adore her.
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When I went to law school, I took a bankruptcy class with then-professor, now-Senator Elizabeth Warren. And I’ll never forget that first day of class, hearing her talk about the importance of the bankruptcy system.
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I remember I was a little girl when Elizabeth Taylor stole Eddie Fisher from America’s Sweetheart, Debbie Reynolds, and the reaction back then was enormous! And Angelina Jolie was in trouble, too, for taking a husband away from another America’s Sweetheart. Don’t take husbands from America’s Sweethearts.
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Queen Elizabeth is reserved when she meets strangers – but with friends and family she can be very witty.
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I’ve never been an impressionist. I was doing Sofia Vergara and Elizabeth Dole. I’m sometimes so low-confidence and self-aware, so characters that are confident and ignorant and wrong are my favorite.
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Elizabeth Hurley rocks. She really rocks.
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I’m a huge Elizabeth Berg fan. Her novels are always charming, thoughtful, and filled with lively, three-dimensional characters.
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British cookbook author Elizabeth David led the most adventurous life but is widely credited with bringing to the fore the importance of home cooking.
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My real name is Elizabeth, but I had a nanny growing up who called me ‘Elizabeanie.’ So from 4 months old, my brothers were, like, ‘Let’s call her Beanie.’ To show people the validity of it, I always say that if I met the president, I would say, ‘Hi, my name is Beanie.’
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I have always admired and had enormous respect for Elizabeth Taylor. She was not only an incredible actress but an amazing woman as well.
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It was Queen Elizabeth who made me a foreign correspondent.
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Kamala Harris is fumbling and she’s like, ‘Oh, I’m going to go after Twitter because Elizabeth Warren sucked all the oxygen out of the room.’ She’s standing up and saying, ‘I’m going to go after Facebook, I’m going to break them up, I’m going to go after all of these big technology companies.’
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I’ve worked with people and I’ve known people that were really competitive, but I’ve always said that I take an Elizabeth Bennett philosophy of life – I laugh. I love my job, but if it means hurting someone, I won’t do it.
