Quotes about britain
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The defeat of the combined French and Spanish fleets lifted the very real threat of an invasion of Britain and it was greeted by the nation with huge relief, Horatio Nelson
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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 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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'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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I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error. Stephen Hawking
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There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. Iain Duncan Smith
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While I enjoy spending time in L.A., Britain is my home. Michael Sheen
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They don't think we're in touch with modern Britain, or understand modern Britain or like modern Britain. Francis Maude
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book. Bernard Cornwell
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. Adam Hochschild
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One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States. Bill Bryson
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I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. Noam Chomsky
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We run serious business in Great Britain with large industrial partners and energy stations. We intend to hold 20 percent of the fuel market by 2015. Alexander Medvedev
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To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil. Boris Johnson
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We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like. Nick Harkaway
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I adore Britain! It's my favourite country; I love their eccentricity. I find Britain so inspiring.
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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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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.
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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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Unlike many of its European neighbors, Britain shares many of America's financial traits. Robert Kiyosaki
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One thing about television in Britain is that they're so scared about complaints. It curbs a lot of drama. Alice Lowe
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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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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 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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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.