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You know, I do speak the Queens English. It's just the wrong Queens that's all. It's over the 59th Street Bridge. It's not over the Atlantic Ocean. -- Cyndi Lauper
Tortall and the Queens Riders! -- Tamora Pierce
I'm a Queens boy at the end of the day. -- Andrew Cuomo
I come from a working-class background in Queens, New York. -- Amy Ryan
I had to do a lot of dancing in 'Queens of Country.' -- Lizzy Caplan
I was born in Queens, New York, which is a suburb of New York City. -- Peter Jurasik
I love doing comedy. I did comedy for seven years on 'The King of Queens. -- Lou Ferrigno
My family is from Elmhurst, Queens, 54th Avenue, but I was born in Northern California. -- Jussie Smollett
I mean, Manhattan is cool. But weird parts, I like that. Jamaica, Queens, that's great. -- Mac DeMarco
The world is full of Kings and Queens, Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams. -- Ronnie James Dio
Me, I look in the mirror and all I see is this Jewish kid from Queens. -- David Krumholtz
We lived in Yorkville until 1940, at which point we moved into the St. Albans neighborhood of Queens. -- Bob Cousy
Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling. -- Louisa May Alcott
This red-fading-into-brown defines Queens for me; it is quiet and melancholy and postsuccessful, vaguely British in its disposition. -- Gary Shteyngart
I have a great memory. And actually, I remember Russia in some ways better than I remember Queens. -- Gary Shteyngart
There were only two things you did in New York City, Queens to be exact, music or sports. -- Phife Dawg
It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens. -- Fran Drescher
I love eating at my dad's pub, the Queens Arms in Kilburn. It does a traditional Albanian spinach pie. -- Rita Ora
it's your own fault for encouraging him..., you know. Now he thinks he's a human being. Neal of Queens cove -- Tamora Pierce
As far as rap goes, I grew up in Hollis, Queens, so early influences were people like Run DMC and LL Cool J. -- Ja Rule
What --- you don't believe in true love?" Petra asked. "The kind that can then be parlayed into awesome merchandising opportunities?" - "Beauty Queens -- Libba Bray
Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. -- Thomas Nashe
[Juan Wauters] got the tips for Queens because he grew up there.So him and my roommate, Matt Volz, they hooked me up, New York Style. -- Mac DeMarco
I'm a girl from Queens. I've never gone, 'What am I doing today? Oh, I'm gonna grab a gun and learn how to use it.' -- Zoe Saldana
The auditorium, named after a dead Queens politician is windowless in honor of the secrecy in which he lived and, probably, the bank vaults he frequented. -- Jimmy Breslin
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in. -- Josh Homme
Sometimes Queens' music is dark, but somehow it's ok to deliver it with a smile on your face because thing's are still going to kick in. -- Josh Homme
I loved doing the 'King of Queens', I have never had so much fun doing a show. People got to see a different side of me. -- Lou Ferrigno
Everybody must be managed. Queens must be managed. Kings must be managed, for men want managing almost as much as women, and that's saying a good deal. -- Thomas Hardy
I grew up in Queens and New Jersey. I started doing children's theater when I was seven to get out of school because I didn't fit in. -- Jesse Eisenberg
I was born and raised in Queens and moved into the city as a young adult. Then I ended up acting and decided to run off to California. -- Debi Mazar
I spent two weeks prancing around a studio in Queens in my underwear with nine other guys. They were long days. But what the hell, it was Calvin Klein. -- Michael Bergin
I'm a person who has, to a certain extent, redefined where I should be. I started off in Brooklyn and Queens and I wasn't supposed to come to Manhattan. -- Donald Trump
I was born in Queens and spent many years there. After I got married, I moved to Kew Gardens, then moved to Baldwin, Long Island, where I still reside. -- Bob Sheppard
I was a student at Columbia College, actually, in the Architecture school. Paul would drive in from Queens, showing me these new songs. I can't remember us working it out. -- Art Garfunkel
I had a little delivery van, and I did work around Queens. I was also a waiter at Red Lobster, so I was working on the business in between jobs. -- Daymond John
When I did The Natural that album was done from the perspective of a kid from Queens that was 19-20 years old who doesn't know that much about the industry. -- Mic Geronimo
You'll find little schools of musicians experimenting with different ways of making music in Brooklyn, all through Manhattan, in Queens, in Jersey, you know? The city is still bubbling with creativity. -- Chick Corea
I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures. -- Action Bronson
By the time I was 7, I did walk-ons, catalogue modeling, you name it. In the Queens where I grew up, you didn't go bowling on Saturday; you went to dancing school. -- Christopher Walken
In the Bronx, you have the southern Italians; in Queens, the Greeks, Koreans and Chinese; in Brooklyn, the Jewish community; and in Harlem, the Hispanics - all with their own markets. -- Daniel Boulud
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A whole bunch of months passed and I didn't hear anything and then he emailed and asked if I could do a little piece on POD and Queens of the Stone Age. -- Chuck Klosterman
I just produced Criminal, this remake of Nine Queens, and one of the things that appealed to me about Nine Queens is that it was a performance piece, and that's the most fun. -- Steven Soderbergh
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldis in Queens. -- JWoww
I graduated from college with a 3.92 GPA with a degree in computer programming and a BFA in fine arts and animation. My first job was painting a mural in the Grimaldi's in Queens. -- JWoww
The expression of this idea is Queens of the Stone Age, but the idea is that you will never slack on the music and will always humble yourself at the alter of Rock. -- Josh Homme
Our Feastival of Queens area, which featured five different authentic ethnic foods from Queens, was one of the most popular areas of the festival, and was written about in a number of different reviews. -- Tom Russell
The first time I played golf was in Flushing Meadows, Queens, when I was about 16 or 17. They had an 18-hole pitch-and-putt. My buddies and I would hop the fence and sneak on and play. -- Ray Romano
I look at my career as a body of work, not just Queens of the Stone Age records. I'm in Eagles of Death Metal, I'm in Them Crooked Vultures; I make records with other people. -- Josh Homme
I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats. -- Elliott Abrams
But one sets of grandparents lived on Davidson Avenue in the Bronx and one lived in Manhattan and I had an aunt and uncle in Queens, so in my heart I was a New Yorker. -- Jason Alexander
I grew up in a semi-attached row house in Queens in New York. And my family and my grandparents and my father's from Brooklyn, and so you're essentially an outer boroughs kid, you're growing up. -- James Gray
I was born in Queens, New York. I've done every job you could think of in New York. Selling peanuts to Larry Fresh Fruit ices to dog walker to unloading trucks at the Jacob Javits Center. -- Dito Montiel
I grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, with no money. I was taught not to take anything for granted. If you are too busy being a diva or a freak, then you are not enjoying it. -- Lucy Liu
Thanksgiving was always a favorite holiday for me. The preparation was fun! My grandma and I would walk to the butcher on Jamaica Avenue in Queens, order the bird, and buy all the fixings at the market. -- Debi Mazar
In Manhattan, and its true on some level till this day; its a whole different mentality from the Bronx, Brooklyn and Queens, which I didn't know at the time - because you basically just know your neighborhood. -- Kool Moe Dee
I go to Queens for queens to get the crew from Brooklyn, Make money in Manhattan and never been tooken. Go Uptown and the Bronx to boogie down, Get strong on the Island, recoup, and lay around. -- Rakim
You want to know what pain is? Try running out of Advil when you've got a Category Five period. I've had cramps that would make grown men beg for a bullet between the eyes." - Jennifer, "Beauty Queens -- Libba Bray
From 1983 to 2000, William Goren stole more than $30 million from investors on Long Island and in Queens. His favorite targets were widows and retired couples, like Helga and Simon Novack, Holocaust survivors who gave Mr. Goren their life savings. -- Alex Berenson
Queens is famous throughout the world for diversity and tolerance. But really it's what we have in common that makes our neighborhoods work, our students succeed, and our families able to care for children and grandparents as they can. -- Grace Meng
People born in Queens, raised to say that each morning they get on the subway and "go to the city," have a resentment of Manhattan, of the swiftness of its life and success of the people who live there. -- Jimmy Breslin
I remember how my mom would take me on the subway from Queens to Broadway. We'd go to the offices of casting agents. Many doors were slammed in our faces. I was just a boy, but I remember that well. -- Dick Van Patten
I was in a very fancy, high-end boutique where the sales associates stand around like mannequins. I walked in and the first thing they said was, "Ooh it smells like booty in here" because they knew me from Scream Queens. -- Niecy Nash
Those of Manhattan are the brokers on Wall Street and they talk of people who went to the same colleges; those from Queens are margin clerks in the back offices and they speak of friends who live in the same neighborhood. -- Jimmy Breslin
I wouldn't mind working with Queens of the Stone Age, doing some guitar stuff on that. Even Arctic Monkeys. I'd like to do be a bit of guitar with them guys. I'll play on anyone's record to be honest with you. -- Steve Jones
Two centuries ago Carl Friedrich Gauss, one of the greatest mathematicians and a founder of number theory, described his brainchild as "the queen of mathematics." Queens are regal, but they are also largely decorative, and this nuance was not lost on Gauss. -- Ian Stewart
This is going to make such a great story: How I nursed a pirate back to health and my love saved him," Miss Ohio said with a contented sigh. "And then we can have our own reality show about our relationship." - "Beauty Queens -- Libba Bray
Taylor clapped three times for attention. "Ladies! Ladies! My stars! That's enough. Now. We all know Miss Arkansas's girls are fake, Miss Ohio's easier than making cereal, and Miss Montana's dress is something my blind meemaw would wear to bingo night." - "Beauty Queens -- Libba Bray
I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles. -- Lynne Stewart
I grew up in South Jamaica, Queens, in New York. My parents were very religious churchgoing people. They were very strict. I was never really allowed to indulge in anything vain. Modesty always. I have three brothers and two sisters, so everything was on a budget. -- Wynter Gordon
New Yorkers only cross water for visual culture if the water is an ocean. The East River throws us for a huge loop. If we started going to Queens and the Bronx for visual culture, many of our rent, space, and crowding problems would be over indefinitely. -- Jerry Saltz
Perhaps this was what Queens did. Perhaps they held their Kings in the darkness, deep within their castles and allowed them that moment of weakness they could never show to anyone else. Perhaps they gave strength to their Kings, because everyone else only took it from them. -- David Gaider
Queens you must always be: queens to your lovers; queens to your husbands and your sons, queens of higher mystery to the world beyond. . . . But alas, you are too often idle and careless queens, grasping at majesty in the least things, while you abdicate it in the greatest. -- Dinah Maria Murlock Craik
I come from West London. I support a football team there called Queens Park Rangers, whom I'd like to give a shout-out to. I'm a die-hard Rangers fan. I think that I would always hopefully have a strong connection to and live in London, because it's a brilliant city. -- Ben Lloyd-Hughes
I grew up in Long Island City. When I was growing up, my parents owned a women's clothing store in Queens. It was for older women. I got my bras there, until I realized I didn't want those huge, taupe bras. Everything was beige, with massive amounts of hooks. -- Jessica Valenti
Don't be a drag. Just be a queen. -- Lady Gaga
To be a queen of a household is a powerful thing. -- Jill Scott
He who fears an isolated Queen's Pawn should give up Chess -- Siegbert Tarrasch
The pearl is the queen of gems and the gem of queens. -- Grace Kelly
Exercise is king. Nutrition is queen. Put them together and you've got a kingdom. -- Jack LaLanne
The difference between Everton and the Queen Mary is that Everton carry more passengers! -- Bill Shankly
There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor. -- Dinah Washington
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. -- Oprah Winfrey
I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace. -- Louisa May Alcott
I am now in a position to choose roles. I did not have so many offers before 'Queen', but now things have changed a lot, -- Kangana Ranaut
There are people these days who can do things on the guitar which are beyond my reach. There's one guy who plays with Queen who can do things I would dream of doing. I sincerely mean that. -- Eric Clapton
I was a queen, and you took away my crown; a wife, and you killed my husband; a mother, and you deprived me of my children. My blood alone remains: take it, but do not make me suffer long. -- Marie Antoinette
Begum Hazrat Mahal of Oudh was the last of the breed of able queens and generals. The queen led her kingdom's army into battle during the revolt of 1857. Even after she was defeated she defied Queen Victoria's famous Proclamation and issued a counter Proclamation.... -- Qurratulain Hyder
Biographical history, as taught in our public schools, is still largely a history of boneheads; ridiculous kings and queens, paranoid political leaders, compulsive voyagers, ignorant general the flotsam and jetsam of historical currents. The men who radically altered history, the great scientists and mathematicians, are seldom mentioned, if at all. -- Martin Gardner
Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self. -- Carl Jung
Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace. -- Louisa May Alcott
Give me the money that has been spent in war and I will clothe every man, woman, and child in an attire of which kings and queens will be proud. I will build a schoolhouse in every valley over the whole earth. I will crown every hillside with a place of worship consecrated to peace. -- Charles Sumner
A queen is wise. She has earned her serenity, not having had it bestowed on her but having passer her tests. She has suffered and grown more beautiful because of it. She has proved she can hold her kingdom together. She has become its vision. She cares deeply about something bigger than herself. She rules with authentic power. -- Marianne Williamson
I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius. -- Lady Gaga
How quickly do we grow accustomed to wonders. I am reminded of the Isaac Asimov story Nightfall, about the planet where the stars were visible only once in a thousand years. So awesome was the sight that it drove men mad. We who can see the stars every night glance up casually at the cosmos and then quickly down again, searching for a Dairy Queen. -- Roger Ebert
I don't understand women who try to be glamour queens. -- Sandra Bullock
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. -- Josephine Baker
These awful middle-class queens - which is what the gay movement has become - are so tiresome. It's all Abercrombie & Fitch and strollers. -- Rupert Everett
I first learned how to do hair from drag queens. I learned eyelashes are the key to life, because they make everyone look fabulous. -- Tabatha Coffey
Most gods throw dice, but Fate plays chess, and you don't find out til too late that he's been playing with two queens all along. -- Terry Pratchett
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired. -- Janis Ian
I am 73 years old. I've seen everything. I've met the kings, the queens, the presidents, I've been around the world. I have one thing that I would like to do: to try to reach peace. -- Ariel Sharon
And much more am I sorrier for my good knights' loss than for the loss of my fair queen; for queens I might have enough, but such a fellowship of good knights shall never be together in no company. -- Thomas Malory
I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But I could not walk into a hotel in America and get a cup of coffee, and that made me mad. -- Josephine Baker
As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have my own perfume one day, and be able to inspire young black girls everywhere, to go into Macy's or Nordstrom's and see their face staring back at them - I wouldn't believe them. -- Nicki Minaj
I think that my interpretation of Italian was a lot more southern than what my husband cooks. You know, I grew up in Queens and in Brooklyn, and we - really, it's more southern. It's Naples and Sicily. It's heavier. It's over-spiced. And like most Americans, I thought spaghetti and meatballs was genius. -- Debi Mazar
There's definitely a luxury to the fluidity of not being a mega-star. I've done a ton of really, really odd, off-the-wall movies. There's this movie I did called 'Queens of Country' a couple of summers ago that is so bananas, and if I was at a certain level, I probably would not have done that movie. -- Lizzy Caplan
I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me - I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They're very calm, they're all about positive energy. There're no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross. -- Fergie
I remember at 16 years old, growing up in Queens, we were punks, but hey, when we went to the theater, we wore a shirt and tie! Similarly, I believe that to keep movie theaters in existence, they're gonna have to make 'em an event, have a couch, a table and drinks or something. Otherwise, there's no reason to get out of your bed! -- James Caan
Pawns are really queens in disguise. -- Lisa Mangum
I've seen some very beautiful drag queens. -- Bebe Neuwirth
I had no sympathy for drama queens. -- Gillian Flynn
I love drag queens and they love me. -- Tori Spelling
The queens in history compare favorably with the kings. -- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood? -- Adolf Hitler
Knights are cavalry, bishops are archers, rooks are cannons and queens are wizards. -- Jacob Aagaard
I am never offended when I see the drag-queens dressed up like me. -- Cher
I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself. -- Taylor Dane
Movie queens diffuse into Cinema haze, while libertines read pornozines in street cafes. -- Al Stewart

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