Mohamed Al-Fayed Quotes

I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

Mohamed Al-Fayed

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• I love London, I love the British people.

  

  Yohan Blake
  • People
  • Love
  • London

• I had seen 'Pillowman' in London and loved it. Being part of something that I, as an audience member, would like to be part of was one of the greatest experiences I've ever had.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • Loved
  • Greatest
  • London

• My stepfather introduced me to The London Library when I was about 18; the clientele has definitely changed since then, but it is still a wonderful oasis in the middle of London.

  

  Natascha McElhone
  • Wonderful
  • London
  • Oasis

• Billions of taxpayers' money has been wasted in bad deals. The London Underground modernisation, personally negotiated by one of Gordon Brown's team, was a disaster, as the National Audit Office has confirmed.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Money
  • Bad
  • Team

• I'm a London girl, so I grew up on Alexander McQueen and Vivienne Westwood... Dior, Chanel, the usual suspects.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Up
  • Girl
  • London

• My most favorite thing about London is that nobody recognizes me. It's really... cool.

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Favorite

• I feel good when I stir something with a spurtle, but I don't make porridge very much in London.

  

  Fergus Henderson
  • Good
  • London
  • Feel Good

• I grew up in a middle class English family just outside London. I wasn't surrounded by that speedy city lifestyle, it was a little mellower.

  

  Ed Westwick
  • Up
  • Family
  • City

• I have never been bribed as a Prime Minister.

  

  Kamisese Mara
  • Never
  • Prime
  • Minister

• I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

  

  Feist
  • Death
  • Really
  • London

• I'm a huge Gaga fan. I have been since I was a kid. I actually camped out overnight to see Gaga when I was 17 years old in London.

  

  Sam Smith
  • See
  • Old
  • London

• Jews have been living in Jerusalem way before British people were living in London.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • People
  • London
  • Jews

• I went to London and performed in Eric Clapton's concert at the Royal Albert Hall. I'll work with him any time he asks me.

  

  Carole King
  • Time
  • Work
  • London

• It undermines the key relationship between civil servants and ministers, ... It has led to very great concern, I may say, among the whole of the diplomatic service.

  

  Jack Straw
  • Great
  • May
  • Relationship

• In America they make too much fuss of poets; in London they make too little.

  

  Caitlin Thomas
  • America
  • Littles
  • London

• The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • London
  • Distant
  • Roar

• The ministers and the Jacobins are making the king declare war tomorrow on Austria. The ministers are hoping that this move will frighten the Austrians and that within three weeks we will be negotiating (God forbid that this should happen). May we at last be avenged for all the outrages we have suffered from this country!

  

  Marie Antoinette
  • God
  • Country
  • May

• The idea of Jewish settlements under Palestinian sovereignty, as was suggested by someone in the Prime Minister's office, is very dangerous and reflects an irrationality of values.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • Ideas
  • Office
  • Prime

• Everything I got comes from Elijah Mohammed. He taught me who I was, he made me proud, he made me fearless, he made me love my own, I’ve turned down millions to keep from selling out my people, the beautiful name Mohammed Ali. And white people cannot destroy me like they have other big ministers of his in the past by telling us oh, you speak good, you should be the leader.White people make me thinkin' that I'm smart, and as soon as I leave Elijah you can get me. But as long as I stay with the Honorable Elijah Mohammed I'm safe.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • Proud
  • Destroy
  • Ministers

• I think now, more than anytime I can remember, bands are sounding pretty similar whether they're English or American, from Manchester or London... or Leeds or Welsh or Irish.

  

  Graham Coxon Blur
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Band

• For to be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Mind
  • Prime
  • Possessed

• I have a new joke today. Martha Stewart's on suicide watch. They had to unplug all of her ovens.

  

  Rip Taylor
  • Suicide
  • Martha
  • Unplug

• Books are growing more honest at a younger age, and the world is becoming less warm and fuzzy. Or at least the monsters are out in the open.

  

  David Lubar
  • Book
  • Growing
  • Honest

• I want to be Prime Minister, but I will stand for Mayor of London first.

  

  Mohamed Al-Fayed
  • London
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