British Quotes - Page 26

• Everything went smoothly at the sailing events today, except for the British team. They forgot to bring limes and they all got scurvy.

  Craig Ferguson

  Funny, Team, London Olympics

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• Even though the Olympics take place during Ramadan, some Muslim athletes said they will not fast during games. Then, after sampling the British food, they said, on second thought, fasting sounds good.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Athlete, London Olympics

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• I remember one guy, Reg Park, a British bodybuilder, who entered Mr Universe when he was very young. But he won it and continued to win it a second and third time. So, he was my idol. I read everything about Reg Park and followed his footsteps and trained like him. I said if he could make it, I could make it. It was a blueprint, basically, for how to get there, to win the championships.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Winning, Idols, Guy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My comedic instinct, is a little bit more rooted in - my mother's British so I've always been more of the dry receiver of the crazy as opposed to the initiator of the crazy. I'm kind of predisposed to be the straight man.

  Jason Bateman

  Mother, Crazy, Men

  "Jason Bateman Talks Horrible Bosses 2, The Family Fang, What He Learned Directing Bad Words, Ipo Man, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. November 25, 2014.

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• Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

  Dwight Garner

  Book, Class, Wings

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• The British public sees with blinding clarity.

  Michael Heseltine

  Clarity

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• As a black actress, all I was offered in British film was the best friend role, whereas in television, I was offered a whole spectrum of parts.

  Sophie Okonedo

  Black, Roles, Actresses

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

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• My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't have an agent at the time, and it kind of threw me into real acting.

  Ashley Madekwe

  Jobs, Real, Storm

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

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• In British culture, redheads get teased at school. But I've grown up enough to realize I love my hair.

  Lily Cole

  School, Hair, Culture

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

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• America has had an influence on me, as has going out with a Cuban-American guy and having lots of American friends. But I am still fundamentally British and speak with a British accent and feel very English.

  Lily Cole

  America, Guy, Going Out

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

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• I'm so excited to be working on Doctor Who as it's such a big and important part of British Culture. I can't wait to meet the cast and crew and start filming, especially as we'll be shooting not too far from my home town.

  Maisie Williams

  Home, Doctors, Waiting

  "Game of Thrones' Maisie Williams to guest in Doctor Who". www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2015.

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• I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

  Chris Froome

  Parent, Heritage, My Family

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• There is something about Prince William and Prince Harry that brings real modernity to the British royal family. They are also very open, human, and kind, and this is what I have tried to capture in the pictures I have taken of them as well as in my pictures of Prince William and Catherine.

  Mario Testino

  Real, Taken, Royal

  "Mario Testino: Princess Diana Is My Favorite, Took My Career To Another Level" by Hilary Moss, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 27, 2011.

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• I love London, I love the British people.

  Yohan Blake

  People, London

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• In the Crusades, getting the Holy Land back was the goal, and any means could be used to achieve it. World War II was a crusade. The firebombing of Tokyo by Doolittle and the carpet bombing in Germany, especially by the British, showed that.

  Stanley Hauerwas

  War, Mean, Land

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• It was part of war; men died, more would die, that was past, and what mattered now was the business in hand; those who lived would get on with it. Whatever sorrow was felt, there was no point in talking or brooding about it, much less in making, for form's sake, a parade of it. Better and healthier to forget it, and look to tomorrow.The celebrated British stiff upper lip, the resolve to conceal emotion which is not only embarrassing and useless, but harmful, is just plain commons sense

  George MacDonald

  War, Men, Past

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• My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.

  Richie Havens

  Mother, Father, West Indies

  "Richie Havens: Face to Face with His Face". Interview With Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. September 26, 2006.

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• I was an opponent of Saddam Hussein when the British and American governments and businessmen were selling him guns and gas.

  George Galloway

  Gun, Government, Opponents

  "Galloway defends himself at US Senate" by Simon Jeffery, www.theguardian.com. May 17, 2005.

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• In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Memorable, Long, Meals

  "Dr John Briffa assesses Sebastian Faulks' shopping basket". Interview with John Briffa, www.theguardian.com. September 12, 2009.

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• My father and I had a good relationship, it was very relaxed. He had a lot of humour. He looked a little bit like me, although he had no beard. He had the appearance of a very elegant British-looking man.

  Michael Haneke

  Father, Men, Good Relationship

  "Michael Haneke: 'There is as much evil in us as there is good'". Interview With Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. October 24, 2009.

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• The idea that women are innately gentle is a fantasy, and a historically recent one. Kali, the Hindu goddess of destruction, is depicted as wreathed in male human skulls; the cruel entertainments of the Romans drew audiences as female as they were male; Boudicca led her British troops bloodily into battle.

  Naomi Wolf

  Ideas, Skulls, Battle

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• We (British) have reached the state where the private sector is that part of the economy the government controls and the public sector is that part that nobody controls.

  James Goldsmith

  Government, Economy, States

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• The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

  Robert Lacey

  Government, British Monarchy, Carter

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• In England "The Day After," though unpopular with viewers, seems to have confirmed the average Englishman's mindless prejudice against Kansas. Shortly after the film portrayed that state being turned into an overused barbecue pit by nuclear weapons, support for British nuclear weapons rose a full percentage point.

  Emmett Tyrrell

  Average, Kansas, Rose

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• I don't want to hear of any of you men getting into any fights with the British. But if you do, you'd better not get whipped.

  Curtis LeMay

  Peace, War, Fighting

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