[Purity is definitely something the Followills kicked under the church pew a long time ago, not only when it comes to their lifestyle but also their music. What critics and fans alike love (or despise) about the Kings' sound is Caleb's muttered, unkempt delivery and indiscernible lyrics that invite constant analysis.] First I think it was just out of insecurity -- I didn't want everyone to understand what I was saying, ... But eventually it got to the point where I was proud of the way I was writing and admitting to it.


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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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It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
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I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
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Grief is the price we pay for love.
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I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II
Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
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Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
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These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
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No one who knew Diana will ever forget her. Millions of others who never met her, but felt they knew...
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I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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I don't know if I have a favorite color.
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It's very special having a new little girl.
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Tell your story to the universe and Let your actions speak LOVE.' No matter what it is.
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We'll sort of get over the marriage first and then maybe look at the kids. But obviously we want...
PRINCE WILLIAM
Family is the most important thing in the world.
PRINCESS DIANA
You philosophers are lucky men. You write on paper and paper is patient. Unfortunate Empress that I ...
CATHERINE THE GREAT
With the right help, children have a good chance of overcoming their issues while they are still you...
KATE MIDDLETON
As iron sharpens iron, so a friend sharpens a friend.
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I don't mind a big fascinator. I think there is more scope for artwork in a fascinator rather th...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I was always told from the hat-makers that you should have your hair up because it shows the hat mor...
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I don't think I'll still be riding at 40. There are a couple of people who are still riding ...
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad's not a big talker.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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You cannot make horses 'safe.'
ZARA PHILLIPS
Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter wha...
ZARA PHILLIPS
It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stu...
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I'm an affectionate person.
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People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me...
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Sometimes people will come up in the street and say: 'My daughter loves you, will you sign an au...
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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My brother and I have been able to get on and have been very lucky to do things with our family that...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I don't think about the media.
ZARA PHILLIPS
I love the sport and being competitive.
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ZARA PHILLIPS
I hate having my picture taken.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Unfortunately in sport it's either good or bad. You've got to take the highs and the lows.
ZARA PHILLIPS
My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real...
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise tha...
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I don't have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it's easier. I don...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I think Facebook's dangerous. So many people I know get into trouble with Facebook... I'd ra...
ZARA PHILLIPS
I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.
ZARA PHILLIPS
Smoking is hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, and dangerous to the lungs.
KING JAMES I
My dear mamma is quite right when she says that we must lay down principles and not depart from them...
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascina...
WALLIS SIMPSON
PS: It's all gossip about the prince. I'm not in the habit of taking my girlfriends' bea...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I am so anxious for you not to abdicate and I think the fact that you do is going to put me in the w...
WALLIS SIMPSON
I hate this place. I shall hate it to my grave.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
WALLIS SIMPSON
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compe...
WALLIS SIMPSON
Never explain, never complain.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You have no idea how hard it is to live out a great romance.
WALLIS SIMPSON
I have always had the courage for the new things that life sometimes offers.
WALLIS SIMPSON
For a gallant spirit there can never be defeat.
WALLIS SIMPSON
Forgive me for not writing but this man is exhausting.
WALLIS SIMPSON
You can never be too rich or too thin.
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A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
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Addiction is a hugely complex and destructive disease, and its impact can be simply devastating. All...
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There is nothing new except what has been forgotten.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I have seen all, I have heard all, I have forgotten all.
MARIE ANTOINETTE
I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It...
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We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.
QUEEN VICTORIA
I can make a lord, but only God can make a gentleman.
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I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.
CHARLES V
I feel very, very lucky that George has got a little sister.
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MARIE ANTOINETTE
I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble.
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A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in.
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Nothing is more useless in developing a nation's economy than a gun, and nothing blocks the road...
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It is necessary to try to pass one's self always; this occupation ought to last as long as life.
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There's nothing like a jolly good disaster to get people to start doing something.
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We shouldn't judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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They're all good-looking. So we don't want to play that card.
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Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.
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The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.
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We ask advice but we mean approbation.
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Our admiration of fine writing will always be in proportion to its real difficulty and its apparent ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no s...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The society of dead authors has this advantage over that of the living: they never flatter us to our...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myse...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Grant graciously what you cannot refuse safely and conciliate those you cannot conquer.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; if you would know, and not be known, liv...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Repartee is perfect when it effects its purpose with a double edge. It is the highest order of wit, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Reply to wit with gravity, and to gravity with wit.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, ...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
In all societies, it is advisable to associate if possible with the highest; not that the highest ar...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
When we fail our pride supports us and when we succeed, it betrays us.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our frie...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness or oppose with firmness.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attache...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, l...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The greatest friend of truth is Time, her greatest enemy is Prejudice, and her constant companion is...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon a...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing th...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
We own almost all our knowledge not to those who have agreed but to those who have differed.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON
Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; sinc...
CHARLES CALEB COLTON