Quotes about britain
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Eight million people carry organ donor cards in Britain and they need to have full confidence that they will be treated with dignity and respect at all times.
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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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Is this how we now must live? ... Britain will not be beaten.
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I entered the health care debate in response to a statement in the United States press in summer 2009 which claimed the National Health Service in Great Britain would have killed me off, were I a British citizen. I felt compelled to make a statement to explain the error. Stephen Hawking
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Judy couldn't move to Britain for family reasons, so I had to come to the States, and the U.S. government wouldn't give me a Green Card, so I airily told her I'd write a book. Bernard Cornwell
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Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
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I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States. Adam Hochschild
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One of the brilliant things about Britain is the way you've managed to save old things but to keep using them - that they've not just become museums the way they do in the United States. Bill Bryson
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I could give you a long list of things I like about Britain, but essentially what it comes down to is that I feel about Britain the same way I feel about my wife. I'm crazy about my wife - we just kind of suit each other. I wouldn't say that she's the most fantastic human being that's ever lived, but she is for me.
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There is so much cross-pollination between the U.S. and Britain in terms of comedians. British TV comedies work well in the U.S. American stand-ups make it big in Britain. John Oliver
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When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has. Noam Chomsky
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We run serious business in Great Britain with large industrial partners and energy stations. We intend to hold 20 percent of the fuel market by 2015. Alexander Medvedev
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To rely on a train in Blair's Britain is to engage in a crapshoot with the devil. Boris Johnson
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There is a very intense culture of secrecy in Britain that hasn't yet been dismantled. What passes for transparency here would serve any secret society well.
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The fact is that in too many communities in cities in Britain gangs now have become completely rooted into these communities and they destroy them around them. Iain Duncan Smith
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We don't need to chase a nostalgic rendering of Britain as it never was and never can be: we need instead an understanding of who we really are and what a happy, prosperous, just nation might look like. Nick Harkaway
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We want to ensure there is an end to drug trafficking and an end to the violence, ... Britain is keen to support Colombia. Robin Cook
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To have two big and powerful countries like the United States and Britain to walk outside the framework... there is going to be lot of soul searching now at the United Nations' Security Council, and within NATO, and within the European Union about what this means for the future, Helen Clark
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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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Britain produces great actors because they learn on stage so know their stuff when they get on a movie set. Jerry Weintraub