Quotes about britain
britain build cultural democratic issue lay next several social whether wishing
What is the big political issue for Britain at the moment? Without wishing to sound portentous, it is about whether we can build a social democratic settlement, whether we can lay the political and cultural foundations for the next several years. David Miliband
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The fact that the Government is supporting pilgrims on the Hajj highlights the extent to which we in Britain live in a truly multi-cultural multi-religious society. No other Western country provides this kind of delegation. Jack Straw
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India introduced Britain to vegetarianism - see Tristram Stuart's excellent first book on this - and it is possible, indeed all too easy, to be a vegetarian in India and eat extraordinarily good, varied food every day, with very few 'repeats.'
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Britain has the most creative, dynamic and nimble fashion industry in the world. Natalie Massenet
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When I was in my early twenties, I hoped one day to own a Victoria Cross, the ultimate decoration in Britain and the Commonwealth for bravery in the face of the enemy.
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In France, they call the people who come to the theatre 'les spectateurs'; in Britain and Ireland, they are the audience, the people who listen. This does not mean the French are not interested in language. On the contrary. It actually says more about the undeveloped visual sense over here. Simon McBurney
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It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. Michael Apted
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Is this how we now must live? ... Britain will not be beaten.
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There's no doubt in my mind that Kirk is a Great Britain player in the making. He's developing from a follower into a player who leads others. He has great presence and I'm just pleased he's in my team and I don't have to work out ways to stop him.
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What everybody forgets is that when I was a journalist in Britain and in the United States, I was always a Canadian. And the price of expatriation does not go down, it goes up. I never felt part of the political common sense of Britain. I never felt it in the United States. I had no natural home in Britain and the U.S. Michael Ignatieff
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This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.
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In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place. Stephen Kinzer
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In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. Nick Harkaway
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In the early 1980s when the British government decided to purchase the Trident nuclear weapons system, Britain faced a perceived threat from the nuclear-armed Soviet Union. Kate Hudson
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In 'The Hobbit,' there were British, Irish, Australian and New Zealand actors, and Peter Jackson was adamant that we would all sound like we were from Britain somewhere. Aidan Turner
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In scholarly circles, it has long been unfashionable to demonize Judas and Catholics in Britain are likely to welcome Judas's rehabilitation. Richard Owen
britain cannot clearly longer mediator objective required
Clearly Britain cannot be an objective mediator on the Cyprus problem. Britain no longer has the required credibility.
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I am the 'change Britain' candidate. We can only change Britain through a united Labour Party and I am the unity candidate. I have got support from the Left and the Right of the party.
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cement the new modern relationship between Britain and India. Tony Blair
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This indicates continued economic growth for the city of New Britain and proves that we are on the right track in expanding our tax base. Our efforts to encourage new businesses to move to our city and existing businesses to expand are paying off.
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I am not as cross about Thatcher now as I was in the '80s. Begrudgingly, I can see that some of her policies helped modernise Britain. Martin Parr
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The great houses of Britain have, for centuries, been the guardians of much of our history, not just of the families who built and lived in them, but of the people who worked there, of the local area, of all of us. Julian Fellowes
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These important grant funds will help ensure safe, lead-free homes for New Britain families, Nancy Johnson
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Sadly, since last year's first memorial service, 14 police officers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland have lost their lives serving the public good, Jan Berry
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. Noam Chomsky
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Personally, I deplore the fact that Britain refused to pay a fair and reasonable share of the cost of enlargement. Jacques Chirac
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Our deal puts Scotland and therefore Britain at the heart of the global microelectronics industry. David Brown
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People feel they know me because of my Little Britain characters - But I'm not a Little Britain character. No one knows what I'm really like. David Walliams
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People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt. Thor Heyerdahl
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The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied. Martin Jacques
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The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry. Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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All over Europe nudity is part of the normal way of life. Britain is sort of getting the same way no matter what the government says.
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A clear majority in principle is willing to sacrifice civil liberties to a certain degree in order to make Britain safer.