London Quotes - Page 27

• I'm going to Queen Mary's [university] in East London and I am trying to juggle it. Sometimes, it's really hard.

  Yasmin Paige

  Queens, East London, Trying

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• My roots are very closely tied to the DNA of the brand. Growing up in Serbia where women are unapologetically very feminine, I came to London and realised that I wanted to keep this feminine element but give it a twist and challenge ideas of classical beauty.

  Roksanda Ilincic

  Growing Up, Dna, Ideas

  "Roksanda Ilincic Sets Up Shop in London". Interview with Davina Catt, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 11, 2014.

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• I haven't ever seen a period drama that has a fantasy element to it, that's set in London, that's as lavish as it is, and that's made for American TV.

  Oliver Jackson-Cohen

  Drama, Elements, Tvs

  Source: collider.com

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• I was born in London, so going there is always a treat.

  Roger Moore

  Born, Treats

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• But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

  Guy Forget

  Nice, Guy, Winner

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• It was a foggy day in London, and the fog was heavy and dark. Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.

  Charles Dickens

  Eye, Dark, Fog

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.269

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• The Royal Festival Hall in London is nice; people hang out there. I think this inviting, non-exclusive character is very important.

  Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Nice, Character, Thinking

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• I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

  Mohamed Al-Fayed

  Want, Firsts, Prime

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• London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.

  Neil Gaiman

  Cities, Pay, Fine

  Neil Gaiman (2009). “Neverwhere: A Novel”, p.10, Harper Collins

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• "Only write what you know" is very good advice. I do my best to stick to it. I wrote about gods and dreams and America because I knew about them. And I wrote about what it's like to wander into Faerie because I knew about that. I wrote about living underneath London because I knew about that too. And I put people into the stories because I knew them: the ones with pumpkins for heads, and the serial killers with eyes for teeth, and the little chocolate people filled with raspberry cream and the rest of them.

  Neil Gaiman

  Dream, Eye, Writing

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• To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Years, Cities, Bishops

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1972). “The Collected Writings of John Maynard Keynes: Essays in persuasion”

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• I do hate the City of London! It is the only thing which ever comes between us.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Hate, Cities, City Of London

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Collected Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Delphi Classics)”, p.4434, Delphi Classics

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• The bread I eat in London, is a deleterious paste, mixed up with chalk, alum, and bone ashes: insipid to the taste, and destructive to the constitution.

  Tobias Smollett

  Ashes, Taste, Bread

  Tobias Smollett (1808). “The expedition of Humphry Clinker. By the author of Roderic Random”, p.143

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• London; a nation, not a city.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Cities, Nations

  'Lothair' (1870) ch. 27

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• I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down.

  George Orwell

  Cost, Facts, Worst

  George Orwell (1972). “Down and Out in Paris and London”, p.160, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved.

  Winston Churchill

  Ashes, Ruins, Should

  Winston Churchill (1951). “War speeches”

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• I'm the only man in London that 'Don't talk to strange men' doesn't apply to.

  Tom Baker

  Men, Strange Man, Strange

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• I've been checking with people back in South Florida to see if Hurricane Dennis is going to whack my house, and the consensus of the experts seems to be: No, it will not, unless it does, in which case, yes. So I'm feeling really calm over here in London.

  Dave Barry

  Florida, People, House

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• My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.

  Mark Helprin

  Children, Father, School

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• In a speech at the just-concluded G20 summit in London, President Obama urged Americans not to let their fears crimp their spending. It would be unwise, he argued, for Americans to let the fear of job loss, lack of savings, unpaid bills, credit card debt or student loans deter them from making major purchases. According to the president, 'we must spend now as an investment for the future'....instead of saving for the future, we must spend for the future.

  Peter Schiff

  Jobs, Loss, President

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• A recent study by David Green and Laura Casper, 'Delay, Denial and Dilution,' written for the London-based Institute of Economic Affairs, concludes that the World Health Organization calculated that Britain has as many as 25,000 unnecessary cancer deaths a year because of under-provision of care.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Years, Organization

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.272, Hoover Institution Press

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• Obviously my own work comes from a conceptual art tradition, but I love the graffiti artists, and I feel spiritually closer to them than to most contemporary art; they make the city a free space of diverse voices and we shouldn't get all cynical about them just because Banksy made some money. I collaborate sometimes with Krae, who is an old school east London graffiti writer.

  Robert Montgomery

  Art, School, East London

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Berlin seems like a place of healing to me though: you have both the Holocaust Memorial and Hiroshima Strasse side-by-side there. You have the whole last century libraried and you can see exactly what we did. Now there's lots of artists and musicians moving there because they can't afford the rent in London and New York, and they're having children and making it a gentle place. It seems to be a place of hope now.

  Robert Montgomery

  New York, Children, Moving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There is something very nice about coming to New York and how everyone smiles - even if they don't mean it. When I go back home to London and say hello to people, they look at me like I'm crazy.

  Sophie Cookson

  New York, Crazy, Nice

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I was about 16 when punk started to happen. It was so exciting. You had a social depression going on in the U.K. There was a sanitation strike. London was really grim, gray. You had Margaret Thatcher coming in. It was a really revolutionary time.

  Boy George

  Revolutionary, Punk, Social

  "Taboo". Interview with Mark Ronson, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 19, 2008.

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