"What identifies an individual as a king is……" — Patrick Stewart
"What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard."
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60 Quotes by Patrick Stewart
Patrick Stewart has 60 quotes on this site.
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Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own…
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As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to…
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Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth,…
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I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people…
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Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at…
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But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir…
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During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a…
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Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was…
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For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
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Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation,
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This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s…
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An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
— Karen Armstrong
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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