Quotes about british
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There is a need to get the British government, in particular, to renovate the assembly, which is part of the 'Good Friday' agreement, and which has never met since the elections two years ago. Gerry Adams
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When we finished the album, the Night at the Opera album, that was the track on it that we thought we were gonna release as a single in England first. John Deacon
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Most people in this country are very fair-minded; they understand we're in the middle of a very difficult journey of repairing, rescuing, restoring our British economy, and they want us, and they want particularly Liberal Democrats in government, to fight for the fairest possible way of doing that. Nick Clegg
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Humour is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue. Virginia Woolf
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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
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I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval. Jeff Beck
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I worked with Hannah Gordon, whom I've seen today, and reminded her of an episode of My Wife Next Door that we did way back in the late 70s. John Leeson
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I work reasonably hard. Though probably not harder than many people. I work probably eight or nine hours a day, six days a week. Anne Perry
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I got it out of my system fairly early, when, thank God, the clubs all started diluting. From what I've heard the clubs have changed a lot. Rhona Mitra
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If they don't vote for her, I hope somebody will have the decency to tell them to go stuff it, ... If they won't support a young woman from British Columbia to be prime minister of Canada, I hope they stop talking about western alienation. Brian Mulroney
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato. Yotam Ottolenghi
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If the British controlled West Point, then they controlled the Hudson, Jim Johnson
british-author cautious century taught work
If the 20th century taught us anything, it is to be cautious about the work impossible.
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He was a very gentle soul and, I think, a very good doctor. And I'm probably being paid more to become a fake version of my own father. Hugh Laurie
british-actor freelance remain thus
I always go by instinct. I have been a freelance my whole career, and I always go by my instincts, and thus remain responsible for my own decisions. Michael York
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I always loved horror and that's sort of the reason we decided to make the film. We were nourished on those sorts of films, so it was a labor of love. Simon Pegg
british-novelist fell himself love remained seems
He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited. Anthony Powell
british-actor run walked walks
He'd just run, run all the time, and he walks about, doesn't he, he never stops. I think that they put an odometer on him one day and he walked miles. Albert Finney
british-actress business buying cakes certainly changes extremely fun generally happy home people run sit
Having cakes as a business certainly changes things for me-I don't now sit at home doing a cake for the fun of it anymore. But it's an extremely happy and pleasureable business to run because people are generally buying cakes for celebrations. Jane Asher
british hall mixed music sex taste tradition
He mixed the British music hall tradition with an American taste for jazz, sex and money.
british-author difficult less life
What do we live for; if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? T. S. Eliot
british-actor drinks particular reality solved
When he's solved that particular clue, then he's back to reality and he doesn't like it. I think that's why he drinks more than most. John Thaw
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There's a clip where he had someone miming me running around from keyboard to keyboard. Oh dear, I am sure a lot of people didn't know what he was going on about. Keith Emerson
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We'll be presenting a broad spectrum of the music and looking at how the younger guys can carry it on.
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Since this our first show, I think they'll see us sweat a lot.
british-actress came longer realized reflected roles
When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat. Julie Christie
british-soldier defending good infantry low mass possessed
Once the mass of the defending infantry become possessed of low moral, the battle is as good as lost. Douglas Haig
british-soldier forces numbers outset supremacy
So long as the opposing forces are at the outset approximately equal in numbers and moral and there are no flanks to turn, a long struggle for supremacy is inevitable.
british-soldier defensive involves
Further, a defensive policy involves the loss of the initiative, with all the consequent disadvantages to the defender.
british-author disgrace general heart human interest particular subject totally trifle
The trifle now inscribed with your name. was occasioned by a particular fact; but to the disgrace of human nature, the subject is sufficiently general to interest every heart not totally impenetrable.
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In the western part of England lived a gentleman of large fortune, whose name was Merton.
british-author luxuries poor
We have no right to luxuries while the poor want bread.
british-author lest shame triumph
But let us not too hastily triumph in the shame of Sparta, lest we aggravate our own condemnation.