Quotes about britain
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The purpose of the 'Way Forward Group' is simply to do, in a formal way, what the royal family in Britain has always done.
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I think Britain has this tradition which suggests that if you make the readers laugh too much, you can't really be serious. Whereas, I think one of the functions laughter can perform in a book, as in life, is that it's a reaction to genuine horror. Mark Haddon
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Today, Labour has a disruptive economic narrative - that Britain needs fundamental change in its market structure and culture to compete in the modern world. David Miliband
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We were a Western civilisation, an English speaking civilisation, both NZ and Australia, and we had all these influences coming from both Great Britain and America to us; sending us their culture in the shape and form of movies and television. Richard O'Brien
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This very individualistic form of Protestant Christianity that became so basic in English and then American life is to a large degree responsible for the historical success of Britain and America. Walter Russell Mead
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In 1907, Britain and Russia signed a treaty dividing Iran between them; no Iranian was at the negotiations or even knew they were taking place. Stephen Kinzer
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In the span of a human lifetime, and well within the collective memory, Britain went from a stable imperial power ruling an appreciable fraction of the Earth's surface to being a tumultuous patchwork which was at least superficially in decline. Nick Harkaway
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It was one of those great miracles of history that they managed to smuggle an Enigma machines out to Britain just before they were invaded by the Nazis. Michael Apted
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The aim is to create here in Britain a really hostile environment for illegal migration. Theresa May
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Britain no longer exists. It is a trace of what it used to be. Muammar al-Gaddafi
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You lose power in Britain and you are just Joe Public again. Ken Livingstone
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The disastrous decision to invade Iraq has made Britain a more dangerous place, Kenneth Clarke
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This indicates continued economic growth for the city of New Britain and proves that we are on the right track in expanding our tax base. Our efforts to encourage new businesses to move to our city and existing businesses to expand are paying off.
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It is totally unacceptable that Britain could be held to ransom in this kind of blockade raising out of a dispute in France. John Prescott
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This man has never set foot in the United States; he has lived in Britain his whole life. If he has done something wrong, this is where he should be put on trial.
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I told the relatives that he would go to a country trusted by Britain and the United States to serve his full sentence, and the length of the sentence would be determined by the Scottish authorities, Nelson Mandela
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It was a tough game to play, coming off the back end of exams and an emotional victory over New Britain on Martin Luther King Day. We played well enough to take care of business. I'm not happy or upset with our effort.
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Personally, I deplore the fact that Britain refused to pay a fair and reasonable share of the cost of enlargement. Jacques Chirac
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Our deal puts Scotland and therefore Britain at the heart of the global microelectronics industry. David Brown
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People feel they know me because of my Little Britain characters - But I'm not a Little Britain character. No one knows what I'm really like. David Walliams
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People had already settled the islands in the Mediterranean and around Great Britain long before the first pharaoh built the pyramids in Egypt. Thor Heyerdahl
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I've never competed in Britain before, but everybody on the circuit knows how good their meetings are so I'm excited about appearing.
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The move towards neoliberalism in Britain was intimately bound up with the embrace of the U.S. as the country to be aped and copied. Martin Jacques
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The old men running the industry just have not got a clue. They've got to come to terms with the fact that Britain is no longer a totally white place where people ride horses, wear long frocks and drink tea. The national dish is no longer fish and chips; it's curry. Marianne Jean-Baptiste
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Royal watchers in Britain are set on scandal.
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Sadly, since last year's first memorial service, 14 police officers in Great Britain and Northern Ireland have lost their lives serving the public good, Jan Berry
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Romania, which had the worst dictator in Eastern Europe, Ceausescu, he was a darling of the West. The United States and Britain loved him. He was supported until the last minute. Noam Chomsky
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I sense a new spirit in Britain: that the people of Britain want this massive demonstration of generosity to be given enduring purpose. Gordon Brown
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The view from space is really very special. From the window, you can look back at the Earth and see the stars around you. I just hope that more people from Britain get the chance to experience it. Helen Sharman
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We have to create security for the working families of Britain, and that's what I'll do Ed Miliband
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history. Rabih Alameddine
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(During a gig on the Sex Pistols' US Tour) See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.
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The real danger to Britain is a foreign policy that is isolationist in Europe and therefore weak in the rest of the world.