Scotland Quotes - Page 5

• America changed my life, but I still think of home and working in Scotland was an important part of that.

  Davy Jones

  Home, Thinking, America

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• Scotland is a great nation, but its horses are very uncomfortable.

  Mel Gibson

  Horse, Scottish, Uncomfortable

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• My father is from Newark in Nottinghamshire and my mother is from the very north of Ireland. They've ended up in Scotland, where my father - well, both of them - will always be seen as having come from somewhere else.

  Ali Smith

  Mother, Father, Somewhere Else

  "Once upon a life: Ali Smith" by Ali Smith, www.theguardian.com. May 28, 2011.

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• Wherever a Scotsman goes, here goes Burns. His grand whole, catholic soul squares with the good of all; therefore we find him in everything, everywhere.

  John Muir

  Squares, Catholic, Soul

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• The special relationship between America and the UK has been one of the great forces in history for justice and for peace, and by the way, my mother was born in Scotland, Stornoway, which is serious Scotland.

  Donald Trump

  Mother, America, Justice

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Pretty much every artist in Scotland - musician, writer, poet, actor - they're all part of a thing called the National Collective.

  Roddy Woomble

  Artist, Musician, Actors

  Source: thequietus.com

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• After I graduated from the University of Glasgow, I was a self-employed archaeologist going from dig to dig around Scotland, and it was not well-paid. I was an excavator, not a lecturer as well, so paying rent on a flat was tricky. In the end I decided to retrain as a journalist as I couldn't see a future in it.

  Neil Oliver

  Self, Ends, Paying Rent

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Moammar Gadhafi is the man that killed those Americans over Lockerbie, Scotland. Moammar Gadhafi is also the man that bombed that cafe in Berlin and killed those Marines. And you want to know why Moammar Gadhafi started cooperating on his nuclear program? Because we got rid of Saddam Hussein. And so he got scared that he would be next, and that's why he started cooperating.

  Marco Rubio

  Marine, Men, Would Be

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• I love the traditional music of all our islands - Scotland, England, Ireland and Wales , but I suppose I'm viewed pretty much as an English songwriter and I'm going to try and do an English album, and I wouldn't be ashamed or embarrassed to do Scarborough Fair and Spencer the Rover and stuff like that.

  Ralph McTell

  Islands, Trying, Albums

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• I'm popular in the United States and I'm popular in England. England is just more concentrated. The people are closer together. Venues are closer together. Many albums of mine have been popular in England, but, no hit singles. All the hit singles I had were before I went to England. So, I'm not necessarily more popular in England, I'm just popular in England, and more so for my performances than hit records. But, I enjoy doing concert halls all over America, England, Scotland and Australia.

  Jack Jones

  America, Australia, People

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• I'd always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh. There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham's sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been. Fantastic guitar player. And he's had a strong influence on me all the way through.

  Bert Jansch

  Girl, Strong, Hero

  Interview with Robin Cook, www.furious.com. December 2006.

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• I get female groupies, but I don't get male groupies. I have women who offer to sleep with me all the time. But not men. They're all talk and nay action -- as we'd say in Scotland. If I go anywhere near most of our male following, they are freaked. Absolutely freaked. I think my height has got a lot to do with it. I'm really tall. I'm five-eight, and with heels, I'm six foot, so people are like. 'Whoa, Amazon!' People are a wee taken aback by that 'cause I think people expect me to be small.

  Shirley Manson

  Taken, Sleep, Men

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• I've always loved the fans in Scotland and have a little Scottish blood of my own.

  Dolly Parton

  Blood, Littles, Fans

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• How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, Military

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• Scotland has always been independent. We have our own legal system, our own culture; I don't see the issue. We are different and I think we should celebrate those differences within the union. I can see what would be lost, but don't necessarily see what would be gained by breaking away. What does upset me is that I can't vote in Scotland.

  Damian Barr

  Independent, Thinking, Differences

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I think Scotland's got its own issues, in some ways similar to Northern Ireland with sectarianism, which has been a long-running sore. All the issues of land ownership, development resources, poverty, alcoholism and violence, all these things.

  Irvine Welsh

  Running, Thinking, Land

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If you are a Scot living outside of Scotland but still in the UK, you are not allowed to vote in the referendum. This leaves over a million of loyal, proud Scots disenfranchised. It gives me the rage.

  Damian Barr

  Giving, Loyal, Proud

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• One thing we do know is that mass literacy is a product of the 19th century, at least in English-speaking cultures - Ireland, England, Scotland, Canada, and the U. S.

  Robert Hass

  Canada, England, Culture

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• In this film [The Last King of Scotland] I am the rooky in the cast. Everyone has miles of experience than me and Della is in the same situation, so life imitated art in many ways. I don't think I could be a journalist. I wouldn't make a very good journalist, especially in Washington and working in politics, which I think would be really tough.

  Rachel McAdams

  Art, Kings, Thinking

  Source: thefancarpet.com

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• Scotland is about layering. The weather changes every 10 minutes.

  Sam Heughan

  Weather, Minutes

  "Talking to Sam Heughan About Sweat, Sheep Dipping, and Outlander Spoilers". Interview with Estelle Tang, www.elle.com. September 23, 2016.

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• I'm kind of obsessed by Everest and all those men that mountaineer and take themselves to extreme limits. Having gone back to Scotland to work on Outlander, I've been climbing a lot and getting out in the Highlands.

  Sam Heughan

  Men, Climbing, Gone

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I grew up in Scotland, and everyone wore Barbour. It's very practical, it's very outdoorsy. It's what the gamekeepers and the fishermen and the farmers would wear.

  Sam Heughan

  Fisherman, Grew Up, Farmers

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Although, okay, in Scotland, the boys wear the skirts. But as far as pop culture, women were on the forefront of the unisex movement and I'm grateful to you.

  will.i.am

  Grateful, Boys, Culture

  Source: www.elle.com

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• The common fisheries policy unfortunately led to the devastation of fishing in Scotland. My dad had to close his business. As a result something that he been built up by by grandfather and maintained by my dad disappeared. So my dad suffered.

  Michael Gove

  Dad, Fishing, Grandfather

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• [Donald] Trump has threatened to withhold investment in Scotland in response to the calls to ban him from the UK. Over the years Mr Trump has made a number of statements about the different scale of his investment in the UK and his willingness to maintain them.

  James Brokenshire

  Numbers, Years, Different

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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