Britain Quotes - Page 34

• Our party: New Labour. Our mission: new Britain. New Labour new Britain.

  Tony Blair

  Party, Missions, Labour

  Tony Blair (1997). “New Britain: My Vision of a Young Country”, Basic Books (AZ)

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• Fox hunting, there's big fox hunting thing, there's arguments in Britain about fox hunting. And they go around. They obviously hunt foxes because the foxes, they attack chickens. And posh people have an alliance with chickens just like in the First World War.

  Eddie Izzard

  War, Hunting, People

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• Combat forces of the United States, Great Britain, Australia, Poland, and other countries enforced the demands of the United Nations, ended the rule of Saddam Hussein - and the people of Iraq are free.

  George W. Bush

  Country, Iraq, Australia

  Third Presidential State of the Union Address, delivered 20 January 2004

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• Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be.

  Muammar al-Gaddafi

  Used, Used To Be

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• Blair is regarded by most people in Britain as a smarmy git.

  Paddy Ashdown

  People, Blair

  "What they said in 2001". www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

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• If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

  Craig Ferguson

  Thinking, People, Cooking

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• It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada and the Bahamas, to name just a couple. Britain's been dumped more times than Taylor Swift. But did they go writing whining songs about it? No.

  Craig Ferguson

  Song, Couple, Writing

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• The sexy magazine in Britain in that time was called Club International. Club International: It was about as international as the International House of Pancakes. It should have been called Naked Cockney Girls with Scurvy.

  Craig Ferguson

  Girl, Sexy, Should Have

  "The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson". www.imdb.com. 2005-2015.

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• I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a big-mouth and an exhibitionist, and I'm slightly egotistical. All those things have to come together for a writer.

  Ben Richards

  Together, Mouths, London

  Source: collider.com

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• Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.

  Derek Taylor

  Feelings, Kind, Lord

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• Trying to cut the deficit too far, too fast isn't working. The government must adopt a steadier, more balanced plan to get our deficit down and take immediate action now to support the economy and create jobs here in Britain.

  Ed Balls

  Jobs, Cutting, Government

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• We can only converse if we can speak the same language. So if we are going to build One Nation, we need to start with everyone in Britain knowing how to speak English.

  Ed Miliband

  Party, Speak English, Knowing

  "David Cameron attacks Ed Miliband's immigration plans" by Rajeev Syal and Nicholas Watt, www.theguardian.com. December 14, 2012.

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• There are those who are trying to create an anti-business culture in Britain - and we have to stop them. At stake are not pay packages for a few but jobs and prosperity for the many.

  George Osborne

  Jobs, Government, Trying

  "George Osborne pledges battle against 'anti-business culture' amid bonus row" by Jill Treanor and Larry Elliott, www.theguardian.com. February 7, 2012.

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• Being the only girl in the world who can say that her mother was Britain's first woman Prime Minister is honour enough for me.

  Carol Thatcher

  Girl, Mother, World

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• Today there are more Muslims at prayer on Fridays in Britain, France, or Germany than there are Christians at mass or liturgy in those countries on Sundays.

  Sr?a Trifkovic

  Christian, Friday, Country

  "Islam And The West: The Threat, The Defense". Interview with Al Kresta, www.pogledi.rs. September 1, 2004.

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• Upon my return from the army to Baltimore in the winter of 1777, I sat next to John Adams in Congress, and upon my whispering to him and asking him if he thought we should succeed in our struggle with Great Britain, he answered me, "Yes-if we fear God and repent of our sins."

  Benjamin Rush

  Struggle, Army, Winter

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• The way in which the USA and Great Britain delivered Iraq to the Iraqis, the way and means that this played out, that is the endgame.

  Neil Young

  Mean, Usa, Iraq

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• In Europe and Britain they seem to be much more accepting and embracing of older bands, whereas in America if you've been out for three years, you're old, and I think that attitude stinks.

  John Bush

  Attitude, Thinking, America

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• Crisis and my experience of Punk Rock in Britain/Europe was anything and everything but "fun" and this sort of idea comes from people who were either not there at the time, or were and have an axe of some kind or another to grind about their own experiences with Crisis. The years between 1977 and 1980 were some of the hardest of my Life and they certainly contributed to Tony and I wanting to destroy the group in 1980 and head for sunnier pastures artistically, culturally, and whatever else we could find.

  Douglas Pearce

  Fun, Rocks, Years

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• It's really an orchestral piece featuring a group and it was quite revolutionary at the time and it in fact, it kicked Deep Purple off as a name in Great Britain because it made all the newspapers. Everyone was writing about us. And there was some confusion as to what kind of band we were after that, which is why Deep Purple in Rock is such a hard unbending album of really furious hard heavy rock. Heavy metal hadn't been invented at that point.

  Roger Glover

  Writing, Rocks, Names

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• Humans who see something different than them want to hate it and tear it down. Britain had a government policy that allowed prejudice to destroy someone's life, and today there is still homophobia at home and elsewhere, like Russia or Greece. It's still a relevant discussion. While women have it better than the 1940s or '50s, sexism is still prevalent.

  Keira Knightley

  Hate, Home, Russia

  "TIFF 2014: Keira Knightley on sexism and spy games". Interview with Barry Hertz, www.macleans.ca. September 11, 2014.

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• I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

  Hugo Chavez

  Jobs, Rights, Democracy

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• I do think that the legacy of the Norman conquest is still strong in Britain. Our hereditary monarchy, our established church, our ancient county structures, though hollowed out in many ways, are a direct result of what happened in 1066.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Strong, Thinking, Church

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Еhere's no doubt at all that the Norman conquest led to the hugely concentrated land ownership patterns that we still see in Britain today. Some of Britain's biggest landowners are still direct descendants of Norman barons. And given the impact that Britain has had on the world over the past few hundred years, you could perhaps say this was a global issue. History is always with us.

  Paul Kingsnorth

  Past, Years, Land

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I can't remember who it was who advocated that you should march with the left and dine with the right but I've often concurred, taking the view that I personify the great tolerance of Britain by consenting to being regally entertained. Besides, there is a degree of truth in the view that while the left are worthier, the right are wittier.

  Will Self

  Views, Tolerance, Degrees

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