Quotes about british
british brown civil core elect gordon government job last means prime ready sure values whoever work
It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.
british-musician copies gear half hour later studios thirty thousand
We were at Pye Studios for half an hour so we set the gear up and we did two tracks. A month later we found out it was selling thirty thousand copies a day. Georgie Fame
british-musician broke
I broke up the band in the office in Gerrard Street.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. Ian Mckellen
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. Frank Oz
british-musician comfort
There's no comfort in the truth, pain is all you'll find. George Michael
british-scientist definite existence knowledge organic remains repeated species teaches time
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. Edward Forbes
british-musician music
Well, I've had a lot of different experiences in music over the years. And not everything you do can satisfy everybody's idealised version of you. Elvis Costello
british-scientist cause speculate store study undergo
We speculate as to what is in store for us. But we not only undergo events, we in part cause them or at least influence their course. We have not only to study them but to act. Emily Greene Balch
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Another cause of change, one less noticeable but fundamental, is the modern growth of population closely connected with scientific and medical discoveries. It is interesting that the United Nations has set up a special Commission to study this question.
british-scientist common deal either vast
Without a common loyalty to either a state or a church they have nevertheless a vast deal in common.
british-novelist hit madam saw time
Madam your wife and I didn't hit it off the only time I ever saw her. I won't say she was silly, but I think one of us was silly, and it wasn't me. Elizabeth Gaskell
british-scientist efficient great instrument language vehicle
Language is not only the vehicle of thought, it is a great and efficient instrument in thinking.
british-scientist discovery suggested
The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures.
british-scientist learned mistakes
I have learned more from my mistakes than from my successes.
british hard harsh rather
They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them. Hugh Laurie
british-historian people wisdom
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Arthur Helps
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The death of this British soldier in Iraq deeply saddens me. All our thoughts and sympathies are with the family at this very difficult time.
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The contract is for six years. We'll see after that. It has always been a dream of mine to play in the British Premier League for a team like Manchester United. Freddy Adu
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The fact that they focused on a British official may be a sign that U.S. personnel are now taking a lot more precautions, while Saunders may have been an easier hit. But it also suggests that if they can't hit at senior personnel, this group is prepared to hit at people further down the chain -- and that could be major cause for concern at the Olympics.
british-actor costume department later main next returned shooting unit weeks
I was in the costume department having the costume made the next day, and we were shooting two weeks later when the main unit returned from Tunisia. Peter Mayhew
british-author people truth
I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre. Jackie Collins
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I think I proved myself today, and I think the British Open is done, so I don't want to hear any more questions about it. Sergio Garcia
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I also want to put on record the very high regard which the British government as a whole, and I personally, have for Kofi Annan, in leading and steering the United Nations through a period of great change in international relations, Jack Straw
british-actor lets rehearsing remember sort supposed
He just lets you go, really. When we were kind of supposed to rehearse, I don't remember rehearsing at all. We just sort of gossiped and chatted. Albert Finney
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Haroon is already a Four Nation and British champion and he thinks he's going to be better than me. We spar a lot and sometimes, even though he weighs only 6½ stone, he can hurt me. I give him one back then - just to let him know who's boss. Amir Khan
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There are still thousands of people dying every year in Laos, mostly children and farmers, from unexploded anti-personnel ordnance that the U.S. simply saturated much of the land with, especially in the Plain of Jars. There actually is a British engineering team trying to remove some of these things, which are much worse than land mines. Noam Chomsky
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Early economic theory was rooted in the Italian, French, and Spanish traditions, which were subjectivist oriented. Then it shifted onto the terrible path by Smith and Ricardo and the British classical tradition, which is 'objectivist' - values are in inherent in production. Murray Rothbard
british-musician choosing songs wrote
I think probably the only thing that is around in these songs is that I was really lonely when I wrote a lot of them. But it was really by my own choosing because I was devoting myself to songwriting and dancing and I wasn't really going out and seeing people. Kate Bush
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Hats divide into three classes: offensive hats, defensive hats, and shrapnel. Katharine Whitehorn
british john name national rock
His name is John Mason, a British national incarcerated in The Rock in 1962. Sean Connery
british hurts invasion pretend
It hurts me not to have them. We can't pretend it doesn't matter. It's like a British Invasion set without the Beatles.
british-actress forget sets soon tend time total
I think you tend to try, during the time you've got off, to forget about the film. It was such a total world. I mean, the sets were claustrophobic, and as soon as you were on there, you were right back into it. Rosamund Pike