London Quotes - Page 31

• The real power is not corporate; it is private. They choose not to have a name. It is a dynasty of banking families - Rothschild and Rockefeller being two - that operate chiefly out of London, in the boardrooms out of the city of London and the Bank of England, which they own.

  Betty Dodson

  Real, Cities, Names

  "Betty Dodson’s Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• When I bought my first house in London with my husband-to-be, our surveyor said: "Nicki, you're paying top dollar, but it's not an investment," and I said: "But we're buying a home, not an investment."

  Nicki Chapman

  Husband, Home, House

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• I had met American artists and just couldn't believe their energy. London was always such a struggle to get anything going.

  Roselee Goldberg

  Believe, Struggle, Artist

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can be a couple in London who happen to take pictures of their breakfasts every day - it's called @symmetrybreakfast - and you can gain hundreds of thousands of followers overnight because people are genuinely interested in your unique angle on the world.

  Kevin Systrom

  Couple, Unique, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I think London is made up of tiny little pockets and villages, and lots of little sub-cultures. So, especially for an actor, it's a brilliant place to live because you've got inspiration all the time, wherever you are. You can turn a corner and you'll be in mansion houses with beautiful gardens and Ferraris, and you'll turn back on yourself and it'll be ghetto land. But I think that's brilliant.

  Scarlett Alice Johnson

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Ghetto

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I think both of us [ with Steve Oram], once we decided to do comedy, knew that we would have to come to London to do that.

  Alice Lowe

  Thinking, Comedy, Decided

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Both of us have forged our careers in London, but a lot of my comedy influences come from my family and my childhood.

  Alice Lowe

  Careers, Childhood, Comedy

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• So many films end up being filmed in London or in the same places over and over again.

  Alice Lowe

  Film, Ends

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Success is always an easier motivator, because you want more of it. But I've also been motivated by failure. Had I medaled in London, I don't think I would be one of the few that have gone to a Summer and Winter. I would have been content with that medal. Instead, I used that failure to go to the Winter Olympics. I always tell people that failure can be one of your biggest motivators if you just have an attitude adjustment about it.

  Lolo Jones

  Summer, Attitude, Winter

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

  Eric Idle

  Rain, Years, House

  "Eric Idle: 'The BBC paid us £2,000 a series for Monty Python’". Interview with Angela Wintle, www.telegraph.co.uk. January 10, 2016.

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• What makes me angry'is that it wasn't me who revealed that I had been with Osama Bin Laden. I originally denied being involved with Osama when the London Guardian threatened to 'out' me.

  Kola Boof

  Osama Bin Laden, Guardian, Threatened

  "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.

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• In 1998, I was trained by the SPLA [Sudanese People's Liberation Army ] in London how to pretend to be a geologist.

  Kola Boof

  Army, People, Liberation

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• I guess a certain contingent of the musicians in London at the beginning of the '70s were fed up with denim and the hippies. And I think we kind of wanted to go somewhere else.

  David Bowie

  Hippie, Thinking, Somewhere Else

  "David Bowie On The Ziggy Stardust Years: 'We Were Creating The 21st Century In 1971'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. 2002.

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• I've always liked the classic "young adult" writers like Mark Twain, Jack London, Roald Dahl, Charles Dickens. They write so clearly, and they know how to entertain.

  Arthur Bradford

  Writing, Adults, Classic

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• My fans - I hate the word fans...my supporters - it's an international following that isn't from being in London and existing on the "scene." It came from being on the Internet, from being a teenager communicating with different artists, showing who I am, who KESH is, as well as connecting with other people around the world doing similar things.

  Kesh

  Teenager, Hate, Artist

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I have people who come up to me and say, 'Oh, seeing your work in my little home town in the middle of nowhere on the internet inspired me to move to London, or New York and pursue a creative career.' It makes me quite emotional.

  Kesh

  New York, Moving, Home

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Brian Eno and Robert Fripp's foray into some artful excursions into some ethereal electric experiments. There was a lot curious activities emerging in London, Amsterdam, and Berlin back then developing some fiercely fuzzy of synth-like effects way outside the norm which really blew the lid off things.

  Billy Gibbons

  Amsterdam, Way, Berlin

  "BYT Interviews: Billy Gibbons". Interview with Jonny Grave, brightestyoungthings.com. January 18, 2016.

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• I was in Britain that year [1963] and some music publishing people in Denmark Street in London suggested me to the BBC. So I found myself in front of a British television show, which was a nice surprise.

  Gordon Lightfoot

  Nice, Years, People

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Many years ago, we were only able to build boxes. Today, architects from all over the world are working with us - Zaha Hadid from London, Gerkan, Marg and Partner from Hamburg, Kengo Kuma from Japan. We brought design and digitalization from abroad to China.

  Zhang Xin

  Japan, Years, Design

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I know that I want to do my one-man show eventually, and that would talk about my life and about how football inspires me. I would love to do Shakespeare again, but in London this time. I'm pretty much open to receive the right opportunities with the right people.

  Eddie George

  Football, Opportunity, Men

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• The pamphlets going back to London telling of the violent derring-dos of the Bahamian pirates were the ones that brought infamy to the names of Charles Vane and Blackbeard. How much of that is really documented history? It carries a flavor with it, but take all this with a pinch of salt.

  Ray Stevenson

  Names, Pirate, Flavor

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• I really like Katy Perry and the music she does. She's an amazing musician and it's an honour to be opening for her in London.

  Aino Jawo

  Musician, Doe, Opening

  "Interview: Icona Pop's Aino Jawo On Their New Album, 'this Is... Icona Pop'". Coup De Main Interview, www.coupdemainmagazine.com. November 25, 2013.

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• As an adult I've connected a lot with men over the Internet. Nothing seems really notable (pre-"Adrien Brody") except I went to London in July of 2010 and before I went I had a few men lined up to meet, two who made a large impact on me. Both were mentioned in "Adrien Brody."

  Marie Calloway

  Men, Impact, July

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're a kid and you're in a classroom, anybody would die to be hanging out in London or having their sixteenth birthday in Japan.

  Zac Farro

  Kids, Japan, Classroom

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• It was also great shooting in London at Pinewood Studios because of all its history. So many of the 007 movies were filmed there, as well as classics by everyone from Marilyn Monroe to Jack Nicholson to Martin Scorcese. It's like working on hallowed ground. So, I felt a responsibility to make sure I did as good a job as I possibly could.

  Naomie Harris

  Jobs, Responsibility, Shooting

  ""Skyfall"-ing for a Bond Girl - Naomie Harris". Interview with Kam Williams, www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com.

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