British Quotes - Page 19

• 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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• In various talk th' instructive hours they past, Who gave the ball, or paid the visit last; One speaks the glory of the British queen, And one describes a charming Indian screen; A third interprets motions, looks, and eyes; At every word a reputation dies.

  Alexander Pope

  Queens, Eye, Past

  Alexander Pope (2013). “The Rape of the Lock In Plain and Simple English (Translated)”, p.49, BookCaps Study Guides

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• The Commons is one of the most depressing and intellectually unstimulating places in the country. [On the state of British politics

  Clare Short

  Country, Depressing, Politics

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• The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

  George Seaton

  Country, Imagination, Wonderful

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• Sheep are not considered the most intelligent animals but British scientist say humans may have underestimated the woolly creatures. In fact, the British scientific community is even suggesting that the animals might even be "Irish-smart.".

  Jon Stewart

  Smart, Animal, Intelligent

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• We know British Muslims, in general, abhor the actions of the extremists.

  Tony Blair

  Action, Extremist, Knows

  PM's Press Conference, webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk. August 5, 2005.

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• Thank you to everybody who voted for me, and to the British public for their encouragement over the last 17 years

  Christopher Eccleston

  Encouragement, Years, Thankfulness

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• About California... "I thought it was an appalling place. Then I went through a period of being amused by it. Now it's sort of both. Californians don't have that marvelous British cynicism, but then the British can be so patronizing at times.

  Alex Kingston

  California, Alex, Amusement

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

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• There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I played hundreds of players from Eastern Europe and Russia who had no facilities at all.

  Tim Henman

  Player, Russia, Europe

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• We want a comprehensive package that covers export subsidies, tariffs and overall levels of support. British Prime Minister Tony Blair is making central to his summit speech that he wants to abolish all export subsidies. It is up to him to push the European Union in that direction, and the U.S. needs to reciprocate.

  Kevin Watkins

  Support, Needs, Levels

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• The British are so incestuous. They pass around partners like they're passing popcorn at a movie.

  Cameron Diaz

  Popcorn, England, Passing

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• To win more medals at Beijing is just fantastic, and British cycling has come a huge way in the last few years.

  Bradley Wiggins

  Winning, Cycling, Years

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• In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.

  David Starkey

  Religious, Mean, Church

  "What do the cards hold for British royalty?". www.cnn.com. August 19, 1996.

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• It is the clash of two different worlds that makes British-ness unique - we have an aristocratic, noble history, but it is always contrasted with something rebellious.

  Christopher Bailey

  Unique, Two, Different

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