British Quotes - Page 37

• I suppose I miss the British cynicism and the humor.

  Rod Stewart

  Missing, Cynicism

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• I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am happy, when I am nervous. My favourite British author is Jane Austen, and my favourite American one is John O'Hara.

  Carolina Herrera

  Book, Shoes, Suitcases

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• The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.

  Joss Stone

  Unfair, Has Beens, Presses

  "Joss Stone smokes weed most days and hasn't heard of Cheryl Cole. Any connection?". www.mirror.co.uk. November 10, 2009.

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• And if there is one thing we can be sure of, it’s that extreme weather events like Superstorm Sandy, Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines, and the British floods—disasters that, combined, pummeled coastlines beyond recognition, ravaged millions of homes, and killed many thousands—are going to keep coming.

  Naomi Klein

  Home, Weather, Events

  Naomi Klein (2014). “This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate”, p.107, Simon and Schuster

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• For the past 15 years or so, British governments have tried to persuade the rest of us that the best judges of the national interest are...businessmen. This may be a ridiculous statement, but -- ominously -- fewer and fewer people laugh at it.

  Neal Ascherson

  Past, Government, Years

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• American television constantly tries to co-op British comedy and create their own version of it. Most of the time it doesn't work; obviously, in the case of 'The Office,' it did. But a lot of times, it doesn't really work.

  Chris Hardwick

  Office, Trying, Television

  "Chris Hardwick Reveals Details of BBC America Deal, How Nerdist Podcast Will Be Adapted for TV (Q&A)". Interview with Philiana Ng, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 25, 2011.

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• It is very clear from the historical record that without British help neither Wahhabism nor the House of Saud would be in existence today. Wahhabism is a British-inspired fundamentalist movement in Islam. Through its defense of the House of Saud, the US also supports Wahhabism directly and indirectly regardless of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Wahhabism is violent, right wing, ultra-conservative, rigid, extremist, reactionary, sexist, and intolerant.

  Andre Vltchek

  Wings, House, Support

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• The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.

  William Hague

  Retreat

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• We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.

  Scott Capurro

  America, Irony, Prove

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• One of the marked superiorities the English enjoy over other peoples is their ability to imbue the foreigner with a crippling inferiority complex the moment he sets foot on British soil.

  Pierre Daninos

  Feet, Inferiority, Soil

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• British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

  Jason Gann

  Inspiration, Years, Different

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

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• It is not polite for a Russian to interfere in British politics.

  Alexander Lebedev

  British Politics, Polite, Interfere

  "Alexander Lebedev profile: ex-KGB agent says he will champion a free press". Interview with Luke Harding, www.theguardian.com. January, 14, 2009.

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• The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Leader, World, Achieve

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• The BBC's television, radio and online services remain an important part of British culture and the fact the BBC continues to thrive amongst audiences at home and abroad is testament to a professional and dedicated management team who are committed to providing a quality public service.

  Pauline Neville-Jones, Baroness Neville-Jones

  Team, Home, Important

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• Pop managers are fixed in the dramatic stock character repertoire too, ever since the first British pop film musical, Wolf Mankowitz's 'Expresso Bongo' of 1959, with Cliff Richard as Bongo Herbert and Laurence Harvey as his manager. The key components were cast as X parts gay, X parts Jewish and triple X opportunistic.

  Peter York

  Character, Gay, Keys

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• The British public like a Briton with personality, someone who comes out on court and isn't dour and down on themselves.

  Jo Durie

  Personality, Court, Britons

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• My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture of materialism and the cult of celebrity, and I've often felt the reason my work has an audience in the UK is because it's everything the British love to hate about the Americans.

  Lauren Greenfield

  Growing Up, Hate, Book

  "Lauren Greenfield: 'It's everything the British love to hate about Americans'". Interview with Tim Lewis, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• I like the fact that I have good old-fashioned British teeth with a big gap.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Teeth, Gaps, Facts

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• I feel that an understanding could be reached with Germany which would result in a lasting peace with Europe and believe that a German victory is preferable to a British and Soviet victory.

  Pierre Laval

  Believe, Europe, Understanding

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

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• What if?' history is a tricky game, but there is no doubt that the senior planners of D-Day - including Eisenhower and the British general Bernard Montgomery - believed that the Double Cross operation had played a pivotal role in the victory.

  Ben Macintyre

  Senior, Games, What If

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• Civil servants are fully aware of the challenges the British economy faces. They are, after all, working tirelessly and professionally to support the coalition government through the current challenges, every day, and in every part of Britain.

  Gus O'Donnell, Baron O'Donnell

  Government, Support, Challenges

  "The civil service is not full of fat cats" by Gus O'Donnell, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2010.

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• In my view the European culture carries a very heavy responsibility for the creation of Israel... it is a product of both British and Stalin's anti- Semitism, but the British never faced their own complicity in its construction.

  Tom Paulin

  Responsibility, Israel, Views

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• From the sea came a boat with some Israeli commando soldiers who took me by the commando boat to the yacht and put me on the yacht. In the yacht I asked people, who are you. And they said we are Israelis, French and British.

  Mordechai Vanunu

  Sea, People, Soldier

  "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.counterpunch.org. August 18, 2004.

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• It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Reading, Grateful

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• Many things have changed in our culture here in England as a direct result of the Pistols: the whole street-fashion thing in London, for example, or the coverage of popular culture in the national press, or the fact that the film industry is now about young people making films about young British issues.

  Julien Temple

  Fashion, Issues, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

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