Quotes about britain
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As a student, I had stayed with Winston Churchill; later, I had lunched with Harold Macmillan - in fact, had met most of the post-war prime ministers of Great Britain from Douglas-Home to Tony Blair. Nigel Hamilton
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I grew up and lived in a Britain in which strikes and the threat of strikes had become part of the social fabric - and it was not very nice.
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Poles finished communism, and Great Britain profited significantly from this. Lech Walesa
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Because of the long, long history of British shipping, immigration, trade, empire, missionaries, you can have a better shot at telling a worldwide story in the British Museum's collection than any other. Britain has been more connected with the rest of the world than any other country, for longer. Neil MacGregor
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'Phantom of the Opera' started in my little 100-seater converted church in Britain with a stage where we did what we did. But it was the score itself was what made it. Andrew Lloyd Webber
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You'll find that no pride is greater than the pride that comes with being thick. Britain is filled with people who are really proud of their stupidity. Andrew O'Hagan
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For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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Mr. Speaker, on September 11, 2001, the United States was attacked, and Britain stood with us. This was not only an attack against America, but against the civilized world; and Britain understood this. Vito Fossella
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The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. Theresa May
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Much of the aid we first gave to Russia we took away from what we promised Britain. So in a sense, Britain participated in a very real way in the recovery of Russia. W. Averell Harriman
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David Cameron's approach has left Britain weakened and weary because to retreat from the world is as foolish as it is futile. Douglas Alexander
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I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States. Sebastian Faulks
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We have the British motor industry as a role model for what happens when you try to save an industrial dinosaur. Britain was the first country to industrialise and the first to de-industrialise. We should learn from this. P. J. O'Rourke
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Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits. Robert Kiyosaki
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We are delighted to be named as the Preferred Supplier of Ferry Services to The Ryder Cup 2006 which promises to be one of the greatest sporting occasions that Ireland has ever witnessed. Out extensive route network and choice of craft between Britain and Ireland has helped us secure this prestigious contract. Michael McGrath
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Britain is one of the world's most open economies. More dependent on trade than any other major country. Our success depends on our competitiveness and our competitiveness depends on raising our productivity, as our competitors are raising theirs.
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The message I take all round the world is Britain is open for business. William Hague
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I always thought the golden rule was pointless because it could always be refined in so many ways. In the past few years, Britain has gone on a very feckless spending spree when every other country has embarked on fiscal consolidation.
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Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. David Miliband
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The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.
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Many employers in Britain are working their employees harder, not smarter,
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London felt the upturn earlier and stronger than all of the others. Hiring in Britain didn't drop as much as it did in the rest of the world through 2003, in financial markets and other industries.
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I went to see him and I didn't see too many managers clambering over from Britain to watch him, Gordon Strachan
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I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror. Mark Haddon
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I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry. David Bowie
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It is fair to say that in the past London and Britain as a whole have been seen as a convenient place to operate international support networks.
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Maybe somebody from Britain will go, ... They don't have to travel far. Annika Sorenstam
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Manufacturing doesn't just mean building cars and metal-bashing; it includes making pharmaceuticals and hi-tech electronics. A crucial part of the process is the research and development that allows better and greener products to come to market. Britain has traditionally had a strong science and engineering base. Martin Rees
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Like the Britain of Beaverbrook and Kipling, Japan in the early twentieth century was a jingoistic nation, subduing weaker countries with the help of populist politicians and sensationalist journalism. Pankaj Mishra
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It frustrates me that Britain can't make something like 'CSI' or 'The Sopranos'. Instead, British TV puts soap in primetime while every other civilized nation leaves it in daytime. Viewers should be more demanding. Jamie Bamber
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We'll wait for Britain to put their new proposals on the table before answering. But I think it's a sign of goodwill in the negotiations. It's also proof that the talks have not broken down.
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We hope that we shall be able to prepare the meeting of the leaders better than Britain in 2005.
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Which means that waiting lists will get longer in the public system, and this is not just hypothetical. The idea was tried by Margaret Thatcher in Britain back in the '80s and early '90s. It was a disaster.