British Quotes - Page 35

• I stand on my public record as a defender of the human rights of Muslims, notably my work for Moazzam Begg and other British Muslims detained without trial in Guantanamo Bay.

  Hari Kunzru

  Rights, Trials, Records

  "Why I quoted from The Satanic Verses" by Hari Kunzru, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2012.

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• People say there's no trace of an accent anymore, and there isn't because I worked very hard to lose it. And the reason I did that is a British accent in America is a real status symbol.

  John Mahoney

  Real, America, People

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

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• I don’t think the United States has done anything whatsoever to merit any criticism by the British.

  John Mahoney

  Thinking, Criticism, Done

  Interview with Novid Parsi, www.timeout.com. April 1, 2008.

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• Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  Cynicism, Californians, Patronizing

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't think the Bonzo Dog could have evolved in America, nor could the old Nice: because of their musical discipline. This is one thing that British groups do have, a sort of discipline. Sometimes it can get a bit soulless, but on the whole I think it's preferable to the American alternative.

  Jon Lord

  Dog, Nice, Thinking

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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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• In 1966 I became president of the British Computer Society.

  Lord Mountbatten

  President, Computer

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• Let everyone leave all the guns - British guns and Irish guns - outside the door.

  Martin McGuinness

  Gun, Doors

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• Some British actors are snobby about telly, and I don't understand that.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Actors, Snobby

  "Matthew Macfadyen: 'I do have a good eye'". Interview with Harriet Lane, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2010.

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• I have moved on from being a British parliamentarian, I have moved on from being a New Labour politician, I have moved on from being the supporter in the active day-to-day sense of Tony Blair.

  Peter Mandelson

  Moved On, Politician, Blair

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• I come from a political family. My father was a freedom fighter. He was a prominent leader of the locality and member of the Congress party. He spent 10 years in British prisons. In the evening, in our living room, the only subject we used to discuss was politics. So politics was not unfamiliar to me.

  Pranab Mukherjee

  Father, Party, Years

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• If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.

  Rachel Maddow

  Military, America, Maintaining

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• The fact is, I've always felt more British than Irish. Maybe it was the way I was brought up, I don't know, but I have always felt more of a connection with the U.K. than with Ireland.

  Rory McIlroy

  Connections, Way, Facts

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• I receive huge support from Irish and British sports fans alike and it is greatly appreciated. Likewise I feel I have a great affinity with the American sports fans. I play most of my golf in the U.S. nowadays and I am incredibly proud to have won the U.S. Open and U.S. PGA Championship in the last two years.

  Rory McIlroy

  Sports, Golf, Years

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• I have a dialect myself; it's more pronounced, because I have studied theatre and been in England. It's half-British, half-Indian.

  Kunal Nayyar

  Theatre, Dialect, Half

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

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• I'm actually going in to ER as the new British intern.

  Parminder Nagra

  Interview with Steve Head, ie.ign.com. August 7, 2003.

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• I've always been conscious of the fact that there aren't enough Irish voices on British television compared to the amount of Irish people who live there.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Voice, People, Television

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And it is undeniably true that the greatest and most important right of a British subject is that he shall be governed by no laws but those to which he, either in person or by his representatives, hath given his consent; and this, I will venture to assert, is the great basis of British freedom; it is interwoven with the Constitution, and whenever this is lost, the Constitution must be destroyed.

  Joseph Warren

  Patriotic, Law, Important

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• We must prevent a criminal understanding between the Fascist aggressors and the British and French imperialist clique.

  Grigor Dimitrov

  Understanding, Criminals, Clique

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• The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  India, Village, Language

  Mahatma Gandhi (1986). “The Moral and Political Writings of Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, Politics and Religion”, Clarendon Press

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• I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  People, Language, Claims

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.100, Courier Corporation

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• It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Party, India, Would Be

  Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

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• Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Strong, India, States

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• My mother always tried to keep a little bit of British culture in our family. We'd drink tea all the time!

  Kurt Cobain

  Mother, Tea, Culture

  "Kurt Cobain: Lost Interview". Guitar World Interview, kuriakon00.tripod.com. July 22, 1993.

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• Now, the magic of British parks at night, as Bill Oddie presents.. Gaywatch.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Night

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