Chamberlain Quotes

• Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

  Winston Churchill

  Europe, Birmingham, Bores

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• I'm the last in the line of Russells and Chamberlains.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Lasts, Lines

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• Does Obama really want his legacy to be, ‘The president who was an even bigger fool than Neville Chamberlain’?

  Tom Gross

  President, Fool, Legacy

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• It is the English, not their Government; for if they were not blind cowards, they would lynch Chamberlain and Halifax and all the other smarmy traitors.

  Enoch Powell

  Government, Coward, Blind

  "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell" by Simon Heffer, (p. 53), 1999.

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• The spider is the chamberlain in the Palace of the Caesars The owl is the trumpeter on the battlements of Afrasiyah.

  Bill Vaughan

  Owl, Spiders, Palaces

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• Richard Chamberlain on The Slipper and the Rose was lovely to work with. He wore the clothes so beautifully and sang his songs so well.

  Julie Harris

  Song, Clothes, Rose

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• I want to be strong, dominant. Like Wilt Chamberlain.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Being Strong, Want

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• I love the English. My God, they brought us 'Benny Hill,' 'Monty Python,' 'The Office,' Neville Chamberlain.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Python, Office, Hills

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• Wilt Chamberlain lied when he said he had 20,000 women.

  Dennis Rodman

  Basketball, Lied, Said

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• I'm just a kid, Chiron," I said miserably. "What good is one lousy hero against something like Kronos?" Chiron managed a smile. '"What good is one lousy hero'? Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain said something like that to me once, just before he single-handedly changed the course of your Civil War.

  Rick Riordan

  War, Hero, Kids

  Rick Riordan (2007). “The Sea of Monsters”, Disney-Hyperion

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• I had a moment like that with Wilt (Chamberlain). He knocked me out of bounds, I came back and faked him, came across the middle and dunked on him.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Basketball, Moments, Middle

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• Why get rid of Chamberlain to put in Halifax? It's like getting rid of the organ-grinder to put in the monkey.

  Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn

  Monkeys, Halifax, Organs

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• I had done a lot of reading, relative for a kid, about World War Two, and I thought about Chamberlain a lot.

  Douglas J. Feith

  War, Reading, Kids

  "A Little Learning" by Jeffrey Goldberg, www.newyorker.com. May 9, 2005.

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• Lord Chamberlain's readers or controllers, which were a handful of people working directly to him, were a very assorted group of people and some of them tried very hard to be as liberal as they could.

  Timothy West

  People, Groups, Lord

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• If they had been fit, Kieran Gibbs and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain would also have made a difference down the left against United.

  Robbie Savage

  Differences, Alex, Fit

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• Bush and Inhofe will go down in history with other leaders such as Herbert Hoover and Neville Chamberlain who were blind to their nation's gravest threats.

  Joseph J. Romm

  Leader, Climate, Blind

  Joseph J. Romm (2007). “Hell and high water: global warming - the solution and the politics - and what we should do”, William Morrow & Co

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• Chamberlain's stubborn, fanatical insistence on giving Hitler what he wanted, his trips to Berchtesgaden and Godesberg and finally the fateful journey to Munich rescued Hitler from his limb and strengthened his position in Europe, in Germany, in the Army, beyond anything that could have been imagined a few weeks before. It also added immeasurably to the power of the Third Reich vis-a-vis the Western democracies and the Soviet Union.

  William L. Shirer

  Army, Journey, Europe

  "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany". Book by William L. Shirer, 1960.

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• I was horrified when Richard Chamberlain and Rupert Everett said gay actors should stay in the closet.  They were saying to people that they should live a lie and not be liberated, to live in fear of being found out.

  Alan Cumming

  Lying, Gay, People

  "Alan Cumming: gay actors should be out and proud" by Brian Braiker, www.theguardian.com. May 8, 2012.

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• The designated hitter rule is like letting someone else take Wilt Chamberlain's free throws.

  Rick Wise

  Baseball, Free Throw, Designated Hitter

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• Listening to a speech by [Neville] Chamberlain is like paying a visit to Woolworth's, everything in its place and nothing above sixpence.

  Aneurin Bevan

  Political, Listening, Speech

  In Michael Foot Aneurin Bevan (1962) vol. 1, ch. 8

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• Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe.

  Winston Churchill

  Political, Politics, Affair

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• Neville [Chamberlain] has a retail mind in a wholesale business.

  David Lloyd George

  Political, Mind, Retail

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• He was a terrific guy. It is a great loss to the sports world. Wilt Chamberlain had a special place in basketball history and he will be missed. We had many battles with Wilt. He was a fun guy to be around; he was a 'Gentle Giant.'

  Tom Heinsohn

  Basketball, Sports, Fun

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• Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA. His dominance, power, demeanor and the rivalry with Bill Russell says it all. He will be sorely missed by myself and everyone in the basketball community. Wilt was a great performer and a great athlete.

  Red Auerbach

  Basketball, Athlete, Nba

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• Today we reject the notion of equality between a regime that belongs to the democratic world - even if it is conservative and disagreeable - and a totalitarian dictatorship, whether its colors are black, red, or green. This is why we will never again say that Chamberlain is no better than Hitler, Roosevelt no better than Stalin, and Nixon no better than Mao Zedong, even if we do condemn Roosevelt for Yalta, Chamberlain for Munich, and Nixon for Watergate.

  Adam Michnik

  Color, Black, World

  "We, the Traitors". www.worldpress.org. March 28, 2003.

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