British Quotes - Page 18

• 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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• I do feel a certain love from the British public.

  Rod Stewart

  Certain, Feels

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• 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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