Queen Elizabeth II
Monarch
"[To a woman whose cellphone rang during a formal meeting:] You'd better answer that. It could be someone important."
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Formal
44 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Thomas Keller
Chef, Restaurateur
"I have no formal culinary training, right."
Albert Camus
Philosopher, Writer
"Morality, when formal, devours."
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Actor, Bodybuilder, Politician
"I admired Hitler, for instance, because he came from being a little man with almost no formal education, up to power. I admire him for being such a good public speaker and for what he did with it."
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"Writing is like paying myself a formal visit."
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"I had very steady and formal relationships with women. And I can say, I fell in love with women and it felt right."
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"Mathematics, in its widest significance, is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning."
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"I have never been impressed by the formal schools of ethics."
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"The very concept of universal formal education is a product (and a relatively late product) of the capitalist world-economy."
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"By the time I entered this prestigious high school, my interest in formal education had already been exhausted."
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"After love a formal feeling comes."
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"each new poem is partly propelled by the formal energies of all the poems that have preceded it in the history of literature."
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