British Quotes
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If I am pushed I will push back, that is the way I am. I am very British. We don't like to be pushed around. When the chips are down we might have to step into grey areas.
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I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
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The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Adolf Hitler and worshipped the other genocide, Josef Stalin. It has marched for Mao, Ho Chi Minh, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov. It has slobbered over Ceausescu and Mugabe. It has demonstrated against everything and everyone American for a century.
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If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.
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The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths set forth in the Declaration.
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I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
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I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
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One thing I have been banging on about, we have a dessert deficit in the U.K. We still import a very large proportion of our desserts. I would ask everyone to go out and buy a British dessert.
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Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
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The Egba kingdom was one of the very last to be ceded to the British protectorate. It remained almost an independent entity within what is now known as Nigeria, simply because of its own traditional structure of governance.
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A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
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Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
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Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
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The British people have the right to decide - have the right to decide whether or not they want to be part of the E.U. And I shouldn't interfere in this.
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It's celebrated in British culture to be eccentric.
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British Israelites: The British Israelites believe the white Anglo-Saxons of Britain to be descended from the ten lost tribes of Israel deported by Sargon of Assyria on the fall of Sumeria in 721 B.C. ... They further believe that the future can be foretold by the measurements of the Great Pyramid, which probably means it will be big and yellow and in the hand of the Arabs. They also believe that if you sleep with your head under the pillow a fairy will come and take all your teeth.
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I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
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The difference between the American version of 'Live Aid' and the British one - in England, if you wanted a cup of tea, you made it yourself. If you wanted a sandwich, you bought it. In typical American style, at the American concert, there were laminated tour passes and champagne and caviar.
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I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.
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The British happened to the rest of the world. Now the world happens to Britain.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
