Britain Quotes - Page 24

• I am an American. I adore Britain and have a strong English half, but my roots are here in the U.S. - it is not a matter of choice; it is simply fact.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Strong, Roots, Choices

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• Great Britain is not part of the euro-zone; but the decision we take will have great importance for Great Britain.

  Francois Fillon

  Decision, Importance, Euro

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• New Labour was the most short-sighted, self-serving, incompetent, useless, and ineffective government that Britain has ever known.

  Liam Fox

  Mistake, Government, Self

  "Conservative party conference - live" by Andrew Sparrow, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2010.

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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Wall, Bricks

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• The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Profit, Establishment

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• I've put myself forward to be involved. Whether I get picked, we'll have to wait and see. Obviously everybody is excited about it, about the Olympics coming to London and the football being played in different parts of Britain.

  Ryan Giggs

  Football, Waiting, Different

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• In Britain you're more used to challenging drama. In America, TV is just boring, and numbing, and bloody terrible.

  Michael Imperioli

  Drama, America, Challenges

  "The king of New York". Interview With Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. June 18, 2001.

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• In Britain, you do your job. When you do an American TV show, there is a sense of being one with the crew, and there is a leadership element, which was a learning curve for me because it is very different culturally. In Britain, you just do it, leave and say, 'Thanks.'

  Theo James

  Jobs, Tv Shows, Curves

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I live in LA so I worry my kids aren't that connected to Britain, I suppose I don't want them to become American kids. We try to get back three or four times a year. When they go to school they speak with a British-American accent but when they come home to us they go back to their British accent, so I can deal with that.

  Kevin McKidd

  Home, School, Kids

  "Kevin McKidd: 'For my role in Rome I had to wear a little skirt - my wife liked that...'". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. February 7, 2010.

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• I want Britain to be the home of successful competitive and stable financial services.

  George Osborne

  Home, Successful, Want

  George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference, www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• I want Britain to be a global financial centre but I want it to be properly regulated.

  George Osborne

  Want, Financial, Centre

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• I love filming in Britain.

  Jason Priestley

  Love Films

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• There's no question that there is more anti-religion noise in Britain.

  Trevor Phillips

  Noise, Anti Religion

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• When I speak to people from Britain, that's when I feel like a fake, speaking with an American accent.

  Matthew Rhys

  People, Fake, Speak

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• I am an American citizen born in Kuwait of Egyptian parents. I grew up in Great Britain, Malaysia, and Egypt and have lived in the United States since 1965, when I was seventeen.

  Feisal Abdul Rauf

  Kuwait, Egypt, Parent

  Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf (2013). “Moving the Mountain: A New Vision of Islam in America”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• The Irish move to a very low corporation tax has generated very significant revenue growth, considerably in excess of Britain's, where a slower economy has been combined with a number of stealth taxes.

  John Redwood

  Moving, Numbers, Growth

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• Stephen Fry is a master exponent of the English tongue. Some people might think that he is the most irritating man in Britain, but my wife and I love him all the same.

  David Tang

  I Love Him, Men, Thinking

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• I think you will find scientists that think like you in Germany and Britain, and you will find politicians that think like Weinberger. I think the most bellicose ruling group in the Western world at the moment is the British.

  E. P. Thompson

  Thinking, Groups, Germany

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• Dizzee's just my childhood hero. He's definitely the inspiration. He's got himself to a very good place. He's defied the expectations of what British black urban music was like. He was the first person who made the rest of Britain realise it wasn't just a one-album-type situation. You've got to take your hat off to somebody like that.

  Tinie Tempah

  Inspiration, Hero, Urban Music

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• The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters.

  Andrew Lloyd Webber

  Years, Water, Pirate

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• I know some of my parents' friends think 'Little Britain' is in incredibly poor taste. But swimming the Channel? You can't really say anything negative about that, can you? There's nothing better than making your parents happy. The glee on my father's face that day was amazing.

  David Walliams

  Father, Swimming, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I personally think that a couple of pounds a week - maybe rising to almost £3 a week - is a reasonable price for Britain to achieve a degree of energy security to reduce its total dependence on fossil fuels and to honour its commitments to cut green house gases.

  Tim Yeo

  Couple, Commitment, Cutting

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• In Britain, you never get away from the fact that you're a foreigner. In the U.S., the view is it doesn't matter where you come from.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Views, Where You Come, Matter

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I quite enjoy fame, especially when you go to conventions in America where they treat you like a god with stretch limos and the whole fame thing, but then when you come back to Britain, you end up changing in a toilet in a theatre off West End and that's really good, because that is what it's about.

  Sylvester McCoy

  America, Theatre, Limos

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• Britain is producing some of the worst films in the world. Our film industry is desperate to be part of America, and we just churn out flaccid imitations of bad films over there.

  Catherine McCormack

  America, World, Film

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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