British Quotes - Page 10

• I love 'Monty Python,' 'Black Adder,' 'Fawlty Towers'. I'm a huge fan of British comedy.

  Isla Fisher

  Python, Black, Fans

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

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• The British media is sinking down, as the American news media has lowered the bar for all of humanity. British news media is definitely trying to stoop down to that level. Everyone is stooping to the lowest common denominator.

  John Oliver

  Media, Humanity, Trying

  Interview with Jason Zabel, www.avclub.com. September 22, 2011.

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• I think British men build up the idea of us French girls having some magic extra sex appeal so much, they lose their heads. I can't really understand the whole thing - but it makes me laugh. It's such a cliche to think all French girls are well dressed, elegant, sophisticated and sexy. Some are utter slobs, I promise you that.

  Eva Green

  Girl, Sexy, Men

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• My sensei was a British karate champion named Brian Fitkin. He was my mentor and because I had a hard relationship with my dad, he became a father figure to me.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Father, Champion

  Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.menshealth.com. August 15, 2012.

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• I've always liked country music. It's a certain aspect of America that goes back to the British Isles and the influence is very native to America.

  Robert Duvall

  Country, America, Influence

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• My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

  Joan Collins

  Mother, Father, Looks

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

  David Walliams

  Believe, Successful, Comedian

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

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• American actors who voice animated movies are so brilliant at it, because by the nature of American speak, it's full of energy and full of commitment. And as a British actor, we have to kind of learn that.

  Helen Mirren

  Commitment, Voice, Energy

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• I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

  Sam Huntington

  Office, Watches, Veto

  "Sam Witwer, Sam Huntington & Meaghan Rath Talk BEING HUMAN Season Two". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 29, 2012.

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• I went back in British history. Some 204 people died there after a mine collapsed in 1838. In 1866, 361 miners died in Britain. In an explosion in 1894, 290 people died there.

  Recep Tayyip Erdogan

  People, Usual, Offensive

  "Turkey’s Many Occupational Hazards" by Ozan Varol, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 16, 2014.

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• In the context of the great debates about identity politics - are you gay or straight, nationalist or republican, British or English and so on - I would ask, "Do you ride a bike?" I love everything about the machine - the sensation of the tyres on the road, the mobility - and I love the fact that you have this intimate relationship with the elements, and the landscape.

  Beatrix Campbell

  Gay, Cycling, Identity Politics

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• Because half a dozen grasshoppers under a fern make the field ring with their importunate chink, whilst thousands of great cattle, reposed beneath the shadow of the British oak, chew the cud and are silent, pray, to not imagine that those who make the noise are the only inhabitants of the field; that, of course, they are many in number; or that, after all, they are other than the little, shriveled, meagre, hopping, though loud and troublesome insects of the hour.

  Edmund Burke

  Numbers, Imagination, Shadow

  Edmund Burke (1963). “Edmund Burke: Selected Writings and Speeches”, p.557, Transaction Publishers

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• I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.

  Winston Churchill

  Mother, Father, Government

  Sir Winston Churchill (1966). “Irrepressible Churchill: a treasury of Winston Churchill's wit”

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• Many people worked with the inspiration to free the country by throwing the British out. After formal departure of the British this inspiration slackened. In fact there was no need to have this much inspiration. We should remember that in our pledge we have talked of the freedom of the country through defending religion and culture. There is no mention of departure of the British in that.

  M. S. Golwalkar

  Country, Inspiration, People

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• As a long-time British Airways advisor, I have seen first-hand that as a company they are committed to innovation, entrepreneurship and the Bay Area community. UnGrounded is strong proof of that commitment.

  Rhonda Abrams

  Strong, Commitment, Hands

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• It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

  Emma Thompson

  Writing, Years, May

  "Emma Thompson on Her 'Militant Feminist' Stand-Up Comedy Years" by Inkoo Kang, www.indiewire.com. May 22, 2014.

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• It has been suggested by some people in this country that I and my government will be a "soft touch" in the [European] Community. In case such a rumour may have reached your ears, Mr Chancellor... it is only fair that I should advise you frankly to dismiss it (as my own colleagues did, long ago). We shall judge what British interests are and we shall be resolute in defending them.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Government, Long Ago

  Margaret Thatcher's speech at dinner in honour of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, www.margaretthatcher.org. May 10, 1979.

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• We weren't getting a fair deal on the budget and I wasn't going to have it. There's a great strand of equity and fairness in the British people - this is our characteristic. There's not a strand of equity and fairness in Europe - they're out to get as much as they can. That's one of those enormous differences. So I tackled it on that basis.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Europe, Differences, People

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• Most correspondents came from the former colonial powers - there were British, French, and a lot of Italians, because there were a lot of Italian communities there. And of course there were a lot of Russians.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Italian, Eyebrows, Community

  "An Interview with Ryszard Kapuscinski: Writing about Suffering". Interview With Thomas Wolfe, quod.lib.umich.edu. 1998.

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• The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues.

  Bianca Jagger

  War, Commitment, Rights

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• When the invasion began, the British public was called upon to 'support' troops sent illegally and undemocratically to kill people with whom we had no quarrel. 'The ultimate test of our professionalism' is how Commander McKendrick describes an unprovoked attack on a nation with no submarines, no navy and no air force, and now with no clean water and no electricity and, in many hospitals, no anaesthetic with which to amputate small limbs shredded by shrapnel. I have seen elsewhere how this is done, with a gag in the patient's mouth.

  John Pilger

  Usa, Iraq, Air

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• As so often before, on the courage and determination of British men and women, serving our country, the fate of many nations rests.

  Tony Blair

  Country, Determination, Fate

  "Blair addresses divided nation" by Martin Hodgson, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2003.

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• But, you know, the Stones were my opening act in the Sixties. I loved those British guys, the way they just stood there and shook their hair.

  Ronnie Spector

  Hair, Guy, Stones

  "Ronnie's spectre". Interview With Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2006.

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• Possessed with a full confidence of the certain success which British valor must gain over such enemies, I have led you up these steep and dangerous rocks, only solicitous to show you the foe within your reach.

  James Wolfe

  Confidence, Rocks, Enemy

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• World War II had been such a tremendous success story for this country that the political and military leadership began to assume that they would prevail simply because of who they were. We were like the British at the turn of the 19th century.

  Neil Sheehan

  Leadership, Country, Military

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