"May I share with you my earliest memory of a political row? It was with my mother, about the Queen - classic Freudian stuff, shrinks would say. I was eight, and refusing to watch the Queen's Christmas Day broadcast."

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Source : "The royals are so thick" by Alastair Campbell, www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2011.

Alastair Campbell

#Christmas Quotes #Mother Quotes #Queens Quotes

“Im high maintenance, but Im worth it.”
“I take everything with a grain of salt.”
“Love cannot be learned or taught. Love comes as Grace.”
“artificial intellegance is no match for natural stupidity”
“It's not the circumstances that determine who you're gonna be but how you deal with these problems and pains that come your way.”

Source : Song: My Girl America, Album: Nothing Left to Lose
“No one knows just how the idea of a soul or the supernatural started... It probably had its origin in the general laziness of mankind.”

Source : John B. Watson (2017). “Behaviorism”, p.20, Routledge
“As musicians it's often difficult. You go to a dinner party and most people treat you like some kind of exotic animal and in a way like you don't have any problems and that it's all fantastic andÂ glamorousÂ and that youÂ wake up in the morning, you kick the groupies out of bed, you roll onto the floor onto a needle, right, which fills you with a lovely substance, you roll into the gutter and you stare at the moon and out comes beautiful poetry. The fact of the matter is that that's nonsense. It's a lot of hard work.”
“There are few professions whose primary objective is to advance the cause of humanity rather than simply to make money or accrue power. Among this limited group of humanitarians I would number teachers, nurses, bookstore owners, and bartenders.”

Source : Jack McDevitt (2013). “Odyssey (Academy - Book 5): Academy -”, p.128, Hachette UK

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