England Quotes
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I cannot make speeches, Emma...If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more. But you know what I am. You hear nothing but truth from me. I have blamed you, and lectured you, and you have borne it as no other woman in England would have borne it.
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Remember I've seen a video tape of a Scotland-England match and I've seen him miss a chance from five yards. It was against England and he couldn't score. So what does that say?
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I've been working at performing for five years now. I've been working in Australia and Spain and England. When I was only 15 or 16, 1 was performing in bars; I could have had legal problems, but it's also the only way to get to know what music is all about.
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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I feel so bad about my MBE now that I am going to tie it around my cat.
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England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.
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...what happened in New York and Washington is the same thing that England and America did to Berlin every day for three years during World War II -- and Germany did the same thing to England.
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Anyone in England who puts himself forward to be elected to a position of political power is almost bound to be socially or emotionally insecure, or criminally motivated, or mad.
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England is so surrounded by the boredom of conventionalities, that it is all one to them whether music is good or bad, since they have to hear it from morning till night. For here they have flower-shows with music, dinners with music, sales with music.
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Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.
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The unweary, unostentatious, and inglorious crusade of England against slavery may probably be regarded as among the three or four perfectly virtuous pages comprised in the history of nations.
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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England in the '60s and the '70s was everything that history has said; it was phenomenally exciting, musically.
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I realized that kids everywhere go for the same stuff; and seeing as we'd done it in England, there's no reason why we couldn't do it in America too.
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There are lots of beautiful areas in England, and I am lucky enough to live in a stunning part of a very beautiful area.
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the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.
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It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common.
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
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I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.
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One of the particular things that impressed me was one visitor [of NAACP] - I think it was - it wasn't the Prime Minister of England. We were located then on 14th Street and Fifth Avenue, up several flights of rickety stairs, and he came all the way up those stairs to see Walter [White], largely because of certain kinds of impact, I think, that the Association seemingly was having.
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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
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In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen.
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I bought Jayne Mansfield's mansion in L.A. after her death. I had met her in England and remembered her perfume. When I moved in, I could smell her, and I saw her apparition.
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There is a cunning which we in England call the rning of the cat in the pan.
