London Quotes - Page 16

In England everything is liberalised. Within certain boundaries and rules everybody can do what he likes. Maybe London's society has a different tempo, a different dynamic. London is fast, productive, creative but it is not England. If you want to transfer that to football, you could say: in the four big English clubs and maybe in the one or two behind them there is a top level. Everything that comes after that rather mirrors English society. It's honest, fair and hard, sometimes also fast, but not always so perfect.

Jens Lehmann

Soccer, Football, Mirrors

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The dog is in Portugal and the city of London is safe.

Jose Mourinho

Soccer, Football, Dog

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It is a testament to the fundamental honesty of football that Israel, with nothing to play for, overcame Russia in Tel Aviv on Saturday. The sport has its faults, but this basic trust is the reason Wembley holds 80,000 and could take more and the track and field venue for the London Olympics will be reduced after the event to the same capacity as the home of Wigan Athletic.

Martin Samuel

Soccer, Sports, Football

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"The [London] Times" has published no rumours; it's only reported facts, namely that other, less responsible papers are publishing certain rumours.

Tom Stoppard

Art, Philosophy, History

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Tottenham are trying tonight to become the first London team to win this cup. The last team to do so was the 1973 Spurs team.

Mike Ingham

Football, Team, Winning

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How about those Olympics, ladies and gentlemen. Didn't London look like the place to be? New York City was in the running for this Olympics. But here's what happened. We got outbribed.

David Letterman

Funny, Running, New York

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Officials at the London Olympics will be conducting 5,000 tests for steroids. Or as Lance Armstrong calls that, 'a Monday.'

Jimmy Fallon

Funny, Monday, London Olympics

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Mitt Romney will travel to London where he will attend the Olympics opening ceremony. Of course it's going ot be weird when they're announcing all the countries, and he's like 'Got a bank account there, got one there, two bank accounts there.'

Jimmy Fallon

Funny, Country, London Olympics

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In the creative process you come to loggerheads and you just have to keep the process moving forward, even if that requires jumping on a plane and flying to London. It's a good thing it's fun, otherwise it would be too much work.

Tom Hanks

Fun, Moving, Jumping

"Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks Talk SAVING MR. BANKS, Bringing the Essence of Their Characters to the Screen, and How P.L. Travers Would Have Reacted". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 9, 2013.

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Jack London is a very generous description of my small hiking, bicycling, and canoeing habit. I myself feel like a weak urbanite a lot of the time, because lots of my friends are incredible outdoorsmen and women.

Nick Offerman

Hiking, Men And Women, Incredibles

"Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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[In London] there was definitely less need to wear my big sunglasses.

Scarlett Johansson

Sunglasses, Needs, Bigs

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Paris is where my family are, but it's not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.

Clemence Poesy

New York, Home, Paris

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Ive been to London twice. I saw the Broadway show Billy Elliot there - phenomenal. I was crying through the entire thing.

Olesya Rulin

Broadway, Saws, Cry

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The first time I came to London on my own, I was 15. I was absolutely oblivious to so many things. I had no expectations, no fears. I just came to do a National Youth Theatre season one summer. It was just brilliant.

Gina McKee

Summer, Expectations, Theatre

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

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I moved to Manchester to join a band and ended up getting into acting, and I moved back to London to become an actor and ended up joining a band.

Jim Sturgess

Acting, Joining, Band

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I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.

Ashley Madekwe

Girl, Heart, School

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

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Topshop makes the best skinny jeans for my shape. I order online or stock up when I'm back in London.

Ashley Madekwe

Order, Jeans, Topshop

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

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It's not exactly under the radar, but when I'm in London, I love to visit Liberty. It's my favorite department store, and they have a room entirely dedicated to chocolate and truffles.

Ashley Madekwe

Chocolate, Liberty, Rooms

“Power Shopping: ‘Revenger’s Ashley Madekwe Reveals her Fasion Favorites” by Lyndsay Flans, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 29, 2012.

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New York has a great energy, but London is better.

Jaime Winstone

New York, Energy

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The fashions we call English in Paris are French in London, and vice versa. Franco-British hostility vanishes when it comes to questions of words and clothing. God save the King is a tune composed by Lully for a chorus in a play by Racine.

Honore de Balzac

Fashion, Kings, Play

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In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him.

Mark Twain

Book, Autumn, Boys

Mark Twain (2016). “The Prince and The Pauper”, p.16, My Ebook Publishing House

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to write a novel in the heart of London is next to an impossibility. I feel as if I were nailing a flag to the top of a mast in a raging gale.

Virginia Woolf

Writing, Heart, Flags

Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1977). “A change of perspective”, Vintage

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[On an actor who'd broken her leg in London:] Oh, how terrible. She must have done it sliding down a barrister.

Dorothy Parker

Broken, Legs, Actors

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I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

Jan Struther

Cat, Kitchen, Black

Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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My fantasy is, if I wasnt on Dexter, I would move my family to London and work for the BBC on Doctor Who.

Manny Coto

Moving, Doctors, Fantasy

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