Tesco Quotes

• I don't have a nanny or a housekeeper, and I only have a cleaner for one hour each week. I finish work and go home. I cook the dinner. I run into Tesco and do the housework in the evening.

  Victoria Beckham

  Running, Home, Nannies

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• So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said "Are you two an item?"

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Men

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• Mental illness can happen to anybody. You can be a dustman, a politician, a Tesco worker... anyone. It could be your dad, your brother or your aunt.

  Frank Bruno

  Brother, Dad, Aunt

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• Investors want to know how exposed a business is to climate change. The physical risks to Tesco are clear, but could be far-reaching. Freak weather in the past few months has disrupted our supply lines in Hungary, Bangladesh and Korea. Any responsible board of directors should be planning ahead, thinking through these risks, and presenting them in a clear, transparent way

  Terry Leahy

  Business, Past, Thinking

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• I think that prosecuting some college kid because she shared a file is a lot like sending somebody to Australia 200 years ago for poaching his lordship's rabbit. That's how it must seem to poor people who just want to watch a crappy movie for free after they’ve been working themselves to death all day at Tesco or whatever, you know.

  Iggy Pop

  Kids, College, Thinking

  "BBC Music John Peel Lecture - Iggy Pop's Keynote Speech Transcript". www.bbc.co.uk. 2014.

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• We think we have to work because the advertising industry has elevated wants into needs. The newspapers and the television batter us incessantly with the latest "must-haves", whether that's shoes, videogames or patio heaters. As a result, mums think they "have" to work at Tesco in order to buy expensive trainers.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Thinking, Order, Shoes

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 1, 2006.

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• There’s only one difference between published and unpublished writers, and it is this -- the first group see their work in print on the shelves of Waterstone’s or Tesco or online at Amazon; the second group are yet to have physical evidence of the hours, weeks, years spent fashioning words into their patterns. You are already a writer.

  Kate Mosse

  Writing, Years, Differences

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• I worked in Tesco's staff canteen because I fancied a boy on the tills. I served him his lunch in a hairnet and tan tights. Not just that, of course - I had a lovely white onesie.

  Lena Headey

  Boys, Lunch, White

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. August 17, 2013.

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• I can afford to get Tescos finest sandwiches rather than the basic ones.

  Taron Egerton

  Sandwiches, Finest, I Can

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