London Quotes - Page 19

• I like BBC news, I like some London news because you can get it earlier then anywhere else. I like Charlie Rose a lot.

  Brian Grazer

  Rose, News, Charlie

  "Brian Grazer On “Frost/Nixon,” Bush’s Damage, His Hair And More". Interview with Katherine Thomson, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 26, 2009.

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• It's nice to keep in touch - besides, it's the only place in London where you can park a car.

  Clement Attlee

  Nice, Government, Car

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• I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.

  Simon Pegg

  Boys, Littles, Middle

  "Simon Pegg on George Romero's phone call and holding Carrie Fisher in his arms". Interview with Will Harris, film.avclub.com. April 10, 2015.

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• It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, New York, Real

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I love the water; it inspires me, even if it is dirty London water that I look at.

  Michelle Mone

  Dirty, Water, Inspire

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

  Anthony Horowitz

  Father, Successful, Library

  "Anthony Horowitz: My family values". Interview With Liza Campbell, www.theguardian.com. July 9, 2010.

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• We're capable of understanding that someone has to drop an atomic bomb on a town of innocent civilians, but not that others have to cut up prostitutes who spread disease and moral depravity in the slums of London. Hence we call the former realism and the latter madness.

  Jo Nesbo

  Cutting, Understanding, Bombs

  Jo Nesbo (2010). “The Snowman: Harry Hole 7”, p.245, Random House

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• Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spend a week in London doing nothing but visit superb museums and galleries, free.

  Simon Hoggart

  Museums, Government, Theatre

  "Simon Hoggart's week: Why do we worry when writers go stateside?" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• I think I was the first executive to ever speak at a Greenpeace business conference, in London in 2001. That didn't play well here at Ford, but I thought it was an important signal to send internally, that these were the kind of issues we needed to be grappling with.

  Bill Ford

  Thinking, Play, Issues

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• I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

  Frances Mayes

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• I love going to London for a couple of days but I need to be in the country. I like the silence, the smell and the seasonal changes, especially in spring and summer. I really feel that I belong there.

  Philippa Gregory

  Summer, Country, Couple

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• Big Star invented a vision of bohemian rock & roll cool that had nothing to do with New York, Los Angeles or London, which made them completely out of style in the 1970s, but also made them an inspiration to generations of weird Southern kids.

  Rob Sheffield

  New York, Stars, Inspiration

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• Like crime, terrorism is a fact of life. I grew up in Israel, where every unattended bag was a suspected bomb; when my family moved for a few years, it was to London in the early years of the Troubles.

  Yochai Benkler

  Israel, Years, Facts

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• I will tell you the secret: God has had all that there was of me. There have been men with greater brains than I, even with greater opportunities, but from the day I got the poor of London on my heart and caught a vision of what Jesus Christ could do with me and them, on that day I made up my mind that God should have all of William Booth there was. And if there is anything of power in the Salvation Army, it is because God has had all the adoration of my heart, all the power of my will, and all the influence of my life.

  William Booth

  Jesus, Heart, Army

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• I think when you write songs, you write about people... People are the source of my material. And London is a wonderful place to be for people. So, the next time you're sitting in a park somewhere, and you see someone like me looking at you, don't phone the police. I'm just writing

  Ray Davies

  Song, Writing, Thinking

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• I found cause to wonder upon what ground the English accuse Americans of corrupting the language by introducing slang words. I think I heard more and more different kinds of slang during my few weeks' stay in London than in my whole "tenderloin" life in New York. But I suppose the English feel that the language is theirs, and that they may do with it as they please without at the same time allowing that privilege to others.

  James Weldon Johnson

  New York, Thinking, May

  James Weldon Johnson (2011). “The Essential Writings of James Weldon Johnson”, p.163, Modern Library

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• London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

  H. G. Wells

  Home, Hills, Fluid

  H. G. Wells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells”, p.12773, Delphi Classics

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• The whole scale and scope of the decorating and fashion business in this country are incomparably grander than in London. Whats thrilling about America in general, and the New York fashion scene in particular, is its optimism. It makes the whole experience energizing and uplifting.

  Hamish Bowles

  Uplifting, Country, Fashion

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• I know my Beijing medal has been a watershed moment in the history of Indian boxing , but personally speaking, I would like to better it in London.

  Vijender Singh

  Boxing, Moments, Beijing

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• I always try to see the good in everything, and that gives me strength. Even when I lost in the London Olympics quarterfinals, I said to myself, 'Don't lose heart, God has his own plans.' Actually, life just goes on; you have to accept whatever challenge you face and become stronger.

  Vijender Singh

  Heart, London Olympics, Giving

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• I have prepared myself to be at my peak in London. But in the Olympics, there are so many factors. You need to stay alert all the time, and a lapse of concentration, even for a second, will let you down.

  Vijender Singh

  Needs, Lapses, Olympics

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• I moved to London with this really warped sense of expectation.

  James Vincent McMorrow

  Expectations, Moved

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• I've lived in London, Paris, Rio de Janeiro, New York, and Turin. But New York is my favorite city. It has so much energy, so much toughness.

  Lapo Elkann

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• I hate London when it's not raining.

  Groucho Marx

  Travel, Hate, Rain

  "Whatever happened to ... the national water grid?" by Iain Hollingshead, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

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• When I was a missionary in London fifty years ago, my companion and I would shake hands in the morning and say to one another, 'Life is good'. Life in the service of the Lord is good. It is beautiful. It is rewarding.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Beautiful, Morning, Good Life

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