Glasgow Quotes - Page 2

• My Dad taught me that the English upper class are sent to school to be taught to be confident, whereas in Glasgow you're born confident. I've always thought that pretty much summed me up. Born confident.

  Rankin

  Dad, School, Class

  Source: ashadedviewonfashion.com

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• I'm not going to throw away the hand of friendship to suit 100 Trotskyites in Glasgow.

  Billy Connolly

  Hands, Suits

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• The average life expectancy rate in some parts of Glasgow is 54. If you've ever been there, you'll realize that that's maybe a bit long.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Humor, Average Life

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• I actually went to drama school at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music & Drama in Glasgow, so I stayed in my home town the whole time. However, I see more of my friends now than I did then. It's strange.

  James McAvoy

  Drama, School, Home

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• Nicholas Parsons' time at the University of Glasgow seems to be absolutely shrouded in mystery.

  Derek Nimmo

  Mystery, University, Seems

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• I just got an honorary degree from Glasgow University, and I had to wear around very painful shoes so that I didn't laugh all the way through the ceremony because I felt like an outlaw.

  Denise Mina

  Shoes, Laughing, Way

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• In Scotland, I have to say I'm more fond of Glasgow Rangers - not celtc - and there is a great player who played for them, who is still alive today, Willie Henderson. I met up with him recently when Benfica played celtc again.

  Eusebio

  Player, Scotland, Live For Today

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• If you went for a job interview in a Glasgow law firm, they used to ask you what school you went to. And that was a way of finding out what religion you were.

  Denise Mina

  Jobs, School, Law

  "Probing The Psyche Of Glasgow's Mean Streets". "Morning Edition" with Vicki Barker, www.npr.org. August 11, 2008.

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• I don't know how they're going to integrate in places like Glasgow and Sheffield.

  Prince Philip

  Classic, Integrating, Sheffield

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• If I die here in Glasgow, I shall be eaten by worms; If I can but live and die serving the Lord Jesus, it will make no difference to me whether I am eaten by cannibals or by worms; for in the Great Day my resurrection body will arise as fair as yours in the likeness of our risen Redeemer.

  John Gibson Paton

  Jesus, Differences, Great Day

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• I was born in Glasgow. But my family is pretty much from a little town called Paisley, famous for its cotton mills and paisley pattern.

  Gerard Butler

  Patterns, Cotton, Littles

  "300 Things We Didn't Know About Gerard Butler" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. July 13, 2009.

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• A few years ago, if you had told me I'd be moving back to Glasgow I'd have said, 'No way'. But it's changed. It's much more vibrant, bohemian. But I'm 35 and I've become a bit of a homebody, I don't really go out much. Same in New York. My home could be anywhere but I love Glasgow.

  Kelly Macdonald

  New York, Moving, Home

  "Kelly Macdonald: 'I'm so not a celebrity'". Interview with Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2012.

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• When I was deputy chairman I could travel from Glasgow to Edinburgh without leaving Tory land. In a two-week period I covered every constituency in which we had an MP. There were 14. Now we have only one. We appear to have given up.

  Jeffrey Archer

  Mps, Land, Two

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• Well the seaport, all seaports in Britain whether it's Glasgow or Newcastle or... or Liverpool, any of the seaports, I've got this kind of knock about, beggar and the Lord will provide feeling about it.

  Derek Taylor

  Feelings, Kind, Lord

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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, Scotland, Ends

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• To perform at the Cardiff Millennium Centre was amazing in itself - the theatre is an incredible venue and it was great to be performing so close to home. For me the best experience was in Glasgow, where I got to play Dee Dee for two weeks! The audience sang along to every song with such enthusiasm you actually couldn't hear yourself singing! That was incredible!

  Francesca Jackson

  Song, Home, Play

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I was in the ensemble and also covered the parts of Dee Dee and Mary!! I had a fantastic time doing this show especially when we performed in places like Cardiff and Glasgow where the audiences were just so enthusiastic, joining in with all the songs and up on their feet dancing at the end!!

  Francesca Jackson

  Song, Feet, Joining In

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• When I was 12, I was in Oliver! at a theater in Glasgow.

  Gerard Butler

  Theater

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• I do miss Glasgow but Malibu is home now. I love it here and when I do go back to Scotland it takes me a bit of time to acclimatise. I am a spoilt so-and-so. I live in the mountains of Malibu in the most gorgeous house and I phone my mum every day and tell her that I have got bad news - that it is only 70 degrees here.

  Tommy Flanagan

  Home, Phones, Scotland

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

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• The East End of Glasgow is like the Olympics. Lots of foriegners in tracksuits struggling to speak English.

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Struggle, Humor

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• I must admit, even my fans everywhere I go in the world - just this week I was in London and Glasgow and the week before I was in Des Moines - my fans all look the same in all those cities - they look great!

  John Waters

  Cities, London, Fans

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• I played upright bass. I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old. You know even women smoke a pipe in Glasgow. I worked with Carla Bley and she smoked a pipe, which I find fascinating.

  Jack Bruce

  Writing, Years, Play

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• Apparently when I went to school, I had a Glasgow accent.

  Annalena McAfee

  School, Accents

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• Whenever I'm in Glasgow I go and stand outside the front of the house I grew up in, which is in Mount Vernon.

  John Barrowman

  House, Standing Out, Grew Up

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• If we can't have an open and honest debate about the value of ideas in a university in Glasgow, or Boston, or anywhere else in the world, then where are they going to go?

  Edward Snowden

  Boston, Ideas, World

  Source: www.nesta.org.uk

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