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Princess Diana
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“[On the press:] I love working with children, and I have learned to be very patient with them.”
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“If men had to have babies they would only ever have one each.”
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“[On the birth of son William:] Thank goodness he hasn't got ears like his father.”
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“The things I do for England.”
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“I'd like to be a queen of people's hearts, in people's hearts, but I don't see myself being Queen of this country.”
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“You can't do anything good that you don't feel in your heart.”
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“I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.”
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“From the first day I joined that family, nothing could be done naturally any more.”
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“... I'm much closer to the people at the bottom than the people at the top, and the latter won't forgive me for it.”
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“Everybody needs hugs.”
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“[Wishing she could take back self-deprecating remarks like 'I'm as thick as a plank' and 'Brain the size of a pea, I've got,' the latter made to a 16-year-old in an orphanage who was worried about his exams:] This was just a jokey way of putting a nervous youngster at ease, but it lingered in the public's mind.”
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“People think at the end of the day that a man is the only answer [to fulfillment]. Actually a job is better for me.”
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“They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?”
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“There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded.”
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“Carry out a random act of kindness with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.”
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“I think the biggest disease this world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved.”
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“Two things stand like a stone. Kindness in another's trouble, and courage in your own.”
Princess Diana, English member of royal family
(1961 - 1997)
Complete title: Diana, Princess of Wales. Born: The Honourable Diana Spencer.