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"I've always been very chauvinistic, even in my boy-obsessed days. But I was always a gentleman. I alwaysd treated my boys like real ladies. Always escorted them properly and, in fact, I suppose if I were a lot older - like 40 or 50 - I'd be a wonderful sugar daddy to some little queen down in Kensington. I'd have a houseboy named Richard to order around."
"The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades."
"Don't be a drag. Just be a queen."
"Queen songs tend to be about very personal things: personal dreams and personal ambitions."
"Do you reckon the Queen has ever pulled a blanket up so just her head's showing and gone 'Philip, look at me! I'm a stamp!'"
"There are a lot of things in Queen albums that you don't expect; that's why we threw them in"
"The concept of Queen is to be regal and majestic. Glamour is part of us and we want to be dandy."
"I would not be a rose upon the wall A queen might stop at, near the palace-door, To say to a courtier, "Pluck that rose for me, It's prettier than the rest." O Romney Leigh! I'd rather far be trodden by his foot, Than lie in a great queen's bosom."
"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."
"I'd like to be queen of people's hearts."
"I solemnly swear that I will bear true and faithful allegiance to the Queen when she pays her income tax."
"If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen."
"I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive"
"God promised by the mouth of Isaiah that queens should be the nursing mothers of the church."
"Consume more than you need This is the dream Make you pauper Or make you queen I won't die lonely I'll have it all prearranged A grave that's deep and wide enough For me and all my mountains o'things"
"Did you know that Dairy Queen ice cream is mostly bubbles?"
"I don't want to be a queen. I want to be the queen."
"Queen songs are not about the life of a rock star - they tend to be about the lives of normal people, which is why I think the songs connect so much. We're very lucky that they seemingly connect with every generation."
"I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen."
"Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia."
