Quotes about british
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It is vitally important farmers remain confident and focused on producing and promoting top quality British meat.
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It's always been a dream of mine to be involved in the America's Cup. I remember when I was a kid sailing Optimists down in Cornwall and there was a British America's Cup challenge that was training in Falmouth, Ben Ainslie
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What astounds me about the history of the British Navy is how cheaply we have policed the world for 300 years. Ernest Bevin
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He also made an enormous contribution to British politics in opposition and in government, John Prescott
british-musician closer
He once had his toes amputated so he could stand closer to the bar. Mike Harding
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Gratitude is a burden upon our imperfect nature, and we are but too willing to ease ourselves of it, or at least to lighten it as much as we can.
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For the Canucks to try scab hockey in British Columbia is a long stretch and would do more harm to this game than any lockout ever did. They'll never get the support of the public to do this. Jim Sinclair
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If I see somebody visually challenged, I won't purposefully focus in on them unless they call me names, and then I'll call them back. Johnny Vegas
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If I am not mistaken, it was a British poet who said that 'no one is properly dressed unless he wears a smile.' Sukarno
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If he had been British he would have been knighted for sure and been Sir Bob. Rick Wakeman
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If God had intended us to fly, he would never have given us the railroads. Michael Flanders
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I brought to about eight that night to join the INTREPID, and to refit our ships as fast as possible, and continued doing so all night.
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I can also tell the House that British troops have opened fire in order to prevent unauthorized entry to . . . a camp in Kabul,
british-musician
I'd go out with Duncan if I was a girl. Lee Ryan
british-musician butch capable girl perfectly stand swayed
I couldn't stand to be thought of as a big butch lady. But I know that I'm as perfectly capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. Dusty Springfield
british-actor pilot rather setting space worked
I don't think the pilot worked particularly well, because the setting was terrestrial rather than otherworldly, in space or whatever. John Leeson
british drove miles quebec week
I'd say we drove 15,000 to 18,000 miles. I was in Iowa, Quebec and Boston. In one week alone, I went 2,100 miles around British Columbia. E. O. Wilson
british-comedian playing
I am playing all the right notes, but not necessarily in the right order. Eric Morecambe
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I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by tax avoidance, and who want to asset-strip the intellectual property of the British company and then dismember it.
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I can confirm that the two British service personnel detained earlier today by the Iraqi Police Service have now been released and are back with British forces in Multi-National Division (South East),
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I came back to the British Masters and started messing around with the belly-putter after being inspired by Vijay (Singh) at New Orleans, holing all those putts down the stretch,
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I do not envy the British Cabinet or the Bush administration their choice, Douglas Hurd
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Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven. Thomas Browne
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Changing costumes was bliss. Getting out of our normal gear into something new, and playing two parts, for me, was very exciting. Sarah Sutton
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By the end of the miner's strike I was defining myself as a socialist, clued in and looking for the next opportunity to defeat the Tories. Billy Bragg
british-actor fun parts
But, you know, as you get older, my God, the parts get more varied. There's a lot of fun to be had doing a lot of different things. Alan Bates
british keeping remarkable
The British have a remarkable talent for keeping calm, even when there is no crisis.
british-author late might
It is never too late to be what you might have been. George Eliot
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The introduction of identity cards will usher in one of the most far-reaching changes in British public life in recent times. Nick Clegg
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The last round of the British Open, (Woods) was flawless. That's the sort of thing we kind of fear. If he plays like that, he's impossible to beat. Lee Janzen
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The Loyal Refugee Volunteers were not members of the regular British Army. Their job was to cut wood for the British, who would pay them for it. To supplement that wood income, they raided into the Bergen County countryside to take horses and cattle, which they then would sell.
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The lowering of expectations with regard to the performance of the British economy will greatly undercut Brown's Marshall plan for Africa. It's an unusual position for Gordon Brown to be in.
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No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances. Mahatma Gandhi