Quotes about british
british excited few rest shock simon
We're excited about Beijing, with Simon and the rest of the British guys. I think we can really do something there and shock a few people. Ross Davenport
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In a much larger sense, the problem of Sabah is directly influenced by the duplicity of imperial Britain. For whatever devious reason, the dismantling of the British empire created divisions and violence due to ethnic and religious differences.
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I grew up in the countryside and always used to wear my parents' Barbour jackets. It is a fantastic British heritage brand. Alice Temperley
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I've always felt, with 'The Iliad,' a real frustration that it's read wrong. That it's turned into this public school poem, which I don't think it is. That glamorising of war, and white-limbed, flowing-haired Greek heroes - it's become a cliched, British empire part of our culture. Alice Oswald
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I think there's always been a traditionally apocalyptic side to British science fiction, from H.G. Wells onwards. I mean, most of Wells' stories are potentially apocalyptic in some sense or another. Alan Moore
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The British have slang words, as we do, but it was fun. Dennis Farina
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We have had more sales for this year's grand prix than any other, and we have been helped in that by the fact that Jenson had 10 podiums last season and looks like a winner. It is good for British motor racing if he is there and doing well. Jackie Stewart
british fifa football identities olympic opposed present privileges separate since strongly threaten within
We have always been strongly opposed to anything that would threaten the separate identities of the British football associations and that has not and will not change. The present set-up has been around, in our case, since 1873 and we have separate privileges within FIFA and UEFA. From a football perspective, that is more important than participation in an Olympic Games. David Taylor
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We have already had a sequence of downgrades from British Airways, Lufthansa has reduced its guidance once, and KLM has massively reduced its guidance,
british jets
We have two British Airways jets parked on our runway.
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We can survive this, British Airways is a strong company, and will come through this in good shape, but we have to take the necessary tough measures.
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In the British embassy in Afghanistan in 2008, an embassy of 350 people, there were only three people who could speak Dari, the main language of Afghanistan, at a decent level. And there was not a single Pashto speaker. Rory Stewart
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I have flown with British Airways since I was a very little child, so it feels quite special to have gone from family holidays flying around Europe to become a gold card holder and be spoiled enough to travel more than not in first class. Orlando Bloom
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If you look back at history, the various Maharajas of the Indian empire actually helped support a whole British industry. The royalty in those days ordered exotic cars in huge numbers.
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You know, the taxing authority of the United States is our most powerful weapon. You know, the reason we separated from England was because the British were using it abusively. Judd Gregg
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We need to take a lesson, not simply from the Americans, but from Europeans and others including the British who have taken some pretty important steps - constitutionally sound steps, but important steps - in dealing with organized crime. Vic Toews
british express necessary unlike views
Unlike the British we are not going to express our views without the necessary investigations.
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We're working very closely with Iraqi officials in Basra and with the British government to determine who might be responsible for this heinous crime.
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The British security industry has the capacity to be a world leader and it should be our shared objective to achieve this.
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I fell in love with stories watching a British television puppet show called 'Thunderbirds' when it first came out on TV, about 1965, so I would have been 4 or 5 years old. I went out into the garden at my mom and dad's house, and I used to play with my little dinky toys, little cars and trucks and things. Peter Jackson
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While I am most at home in London, I cannot really label myself as either British or Trinidadian. I write in the English language and live in the U.K. I find it hard to say that I am an entirely British writer, especially when I supported Trinidad in the 2006 World Cup and also support the West Indies cricket team.
british citizen man mean terms thinking win writer
Well, yeah, I mean I always wanted to be a writer eventually, but I wasn't ever really thinking like in terms of this young. I mean I always fantasized about when I'm 30, I'll go become a British citizen and win the Man Booker award. That's still my big goal.
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When I won the British Masters, things happened and putts went in. Whatever happens with the golfing gods, that's what happens. It wasn't my day today. I'll have to wait for another day.
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The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school. James Nesbitt
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With all the things I've had to go through it would be a big deal for me to get back to British number one. Greg Rusedski
british cursing love sound vulgarity
I love British cursing - the cadence of it, the joy in the sound of the words, and the vulgarity of it. Christopher Moore
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I've always worked on the fringe of the British press establishment, carving out this niche for myself.
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It is our job to work for the government of the day and so that means working for Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, and we need to do those preparations just to be sure that we're ready for whoever you, the British public, elect and that's core to our civil service values over the last 150 years.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living. Ian Mckellen
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I have no idea what a British sensibility or a British sense of humor is. I have no concept of what that is. I have no concept of what American sensibility is. I was born in Great Britain, but I was only there for six months, and we moved to Belgium, where I grew up. Frank Oz
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They're very harsh people, the British: hard to impress, very tough on each other, but I rather like that. It's not that the British are more honest - you're just under no illusion with them. Hugh Laurie
british left played school scottish
I only started concentrating on football as a career when I left school at 18. I played golf for the Scottish and British boys' teams. Alan Hansen
british helped landed partly production teach watch
I used to watch a lot of American and British television as a child, which helped teach me the language and accents; it was partly that which landed me the part of Roxy in a London production of 'Chicago' when I was 25.