London Quotes
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This impressed me when I was the editor of the Sunday Times [of London] - we had the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 13 unarmed civilians by British paratroopers. We interviewed 500 people for our report, and not one of them could give us a total picture of what was happening. It was like the Rashomon effect multiplied a million times. For a website or even a newspaper to be a collector of information flow is not the highest form of journalism.
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We wanted to come to London because it's the hardest place to make it.
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.
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I was picked up on a London street by a model agent. She took me to her office and then sent me to Paris to work in shows. It was supposed to be two weeks, but I ended up living there with my Zimbabwean boyfriend. I made enough money modeling and acting in French movies to buy a nice flat.
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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.
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London is too full of fogs and serious people. Whether the fogs produce the serious people, or whether the serious people produce the fogs, I don't know.
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I loved London. In the 1970s... it was very exciting, really wild.
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London is one of the most exciting cities in the world, with a melting pot of cultures and diversity.
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The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
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In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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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.
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I think what's going on with gorillas is pretty bad. The fact is that you can buy gorilla meat in London any day you want it.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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BMG has been an awesome partner throughout my career, and with New London, we plan to continue bridging the gap between soul, pop, London, and New York - uniting them through music.
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A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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All over London as one walks, one everywhere, in the season, sees oranges to sell; and they are in general sold tolerably cheap, one and even sometimes two for a halfpenny; or, in our money, threepence.
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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.
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I love to come to L.A. to visit, and then I like to come to rainy old London because it's home.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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On the other hand, all kinds of adventurous schemes to add security checkpoints to subway and bus systems have been circulating since the London attacks. This is nonsense. No one can guaranty 100 percent security.
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People expect me to be that guy. But I'm more east London boy than east Baltimore.
