London Quotes - Page 12

• I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.

  J. Philippe Rushton

  University

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• I undertake that, in the exercise of my functions of that office I will have regard to any guidance with respect to ethical standards issued by the secretary of state under Section 66 of the Greater London Authority Act 1999.

  Ken Livingstone

  Exercise, Ethical Standards, Office

  "Livingstone sworn in as London mayor" by Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 08, 2000.

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• My family love living in London. It is a fantastic city and a city such as this deserves to host the Olympic Games.

  Jose Mourinho

  Family, Games, Cities

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• London underground took me on a tour of all the hidden places, the disused shafts and staircases... that was very interesting.

  Ruth Rendell

  Interesting, Staircases, Very Interesting

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• One of the special characteristics of New York is that it is different from a London or a Paris because it's the financial capital, and the cultural capital, but not the political capital.

  Ron Chernow

  New York, Paris, Political

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• But I think you could say my parts in Appointment In London and Gilbert and Sullivan were particularly interesting.

  Dinah Sheridan

  Thinking, Interesting, Parting

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• There's something about being in the country that makes you stick out like a sore thumb ? you're an anomaly. But in London there's always someone wilder and woollier.

  Cornelia Parker

  Country, Anomalies, Thumbs

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• The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Wine, Bottles

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• I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Sound, Mouths

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.

  Bayard Taylor

  Atmosphere, World, Advantage

  Bayard Taylor (1869). “Views Afoot; Or, Europe Seen with Knapsack and Staff”, p.306

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• When I first started coming to New York in the early Nineties and seeing the vitality of the programme compared to what was going on back in London or Paris, it was just in a different league. It's like a 16th-century court.

  Thomas P. Campbell

  New York, Paris, League

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• I don't like the idea that one hotel could be better than another. In any city, I try to find a hotel that has the identity of that place - Claridge's in London, the Danieli or Cipriani in Venice. In New York, I stay at the Mercer Hotel; it is so much in the character of SoHo.

  Jean Nouvel

  New York, Character, Ideas

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• I love to shop vintage clothes; in London, I usually go to Relic and Alfie's Market. I usually brunch around London Bridge, where I live.

  Georgia May Jagger

  Vintage, Bridges, Clothes

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• And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, "If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it." MARTIN LUTHER, Against the Roman Papacy, An Institution of the Devil London is the epitome of our times, and the Rome of to-day.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rome, Devil, Hell

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• My natural accent is American. I chose to speak with a U.K. accent when I was about to enter the final year at drama school in London. I was going to try to find a way to stay in the U.K. after I finished college and could not imagine trying to live and get work there with an American accent.

  Jennifer Ehle

  Drama, School, College

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• An office boy in London was the lowest of the low. The office boy was the tea boy. He would be the dog's body: It means someone who would do anything at all. I was quite prepared for that and enjoyed it.

  George Carey

  Dog, Mean, Boys

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• I think it's cool that London Fashion Week is about young designers trying wacky things.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Thinking, Trying

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• The London music world isn't a particularly cohesive place. And when I'm composing, I'm not very friendly. I need isolation.

  George Benjamin

  Friendly, Needs, World

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• My family comes from New Zealand, but I'm a London girl. I was born and raised in London, but I've got the blood of a New Zealander, so I always kind of felt like I didn't belong - in a good way.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Girl, Blood, Way

  "Natasha Bedingfield Flashback". Interview with Seventeen, www.seventeen.com. June 22, 2008.

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• When my first novel was published, I went in great excitement round bookshops in central London to see if they had stocked it.

  Antony Beevor

  Firsts, Excitement, Novel

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• I loved living in London, and I didn't want to leave.

  Delta Burke

  Want

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• As a kid who wasn't into sports, at school I felt almost alienated at times, whereas in the theatre community there was this amazing sense of camaraderie. Early on, we would go to rehearsals with my dad and I was like the mascot for the backstage crew. That was a big part of my childhood, so I dreamed of one day doing a play in London.

  Zach Braff

  Sports, Dad, School

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• I definitely want to do more movies, and I'm also a writer, so I have a few screenplays that I'm working on, one of them based off my one-woman show that I used to do in New York. Two of the screenplays I've written by myself, and then I'm also working on one with my writing partner, Tom Riley, who's in London.

  Eliza Coupe

  New York, Writing, Two

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

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• Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.

  Diane Abbott

  Looks, Village, Outsiders

  "Politicians interview pundits: Diane Abbott and Nick Robinson". Interview with Nick Robinson, www.theguardian.com. September 25, 2009.

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• Manchester has it's own pride and London has it's sort of pride and sometimes we can be a bit mean to each other, but I think if we dig the music we can get on really well.

  Graham Coxon

  Mean, Pride, Thinking

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