British Quotes
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I like everything European. Even my GPS has a British accent - it's way less annoying than the American one.
Rachel Bilson -
I have to say as an actor I have been inspired by so many British actors throughout the years.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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The best research for playing a drunk is being a British actor for 20 years.
Michael Caine -
Most white Americans only discovered the blues with the British invasion.
Ronnie Wood The Rolling Stones -
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.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
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.
Owen Paterson -
I am honoured and excited to be taking on the role of chairman of the British Fashion Council.
Natalie Massenet -
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
Rudyard Kipling
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
I didn't know Charlie before doing the movie, but I was a huge fan of the British Queer as Folk.
Nathan Lane -
I don't watch much British television at all. I mean, it's ironic because I used to work in it for years.
E. L. James -
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.
Mike Harding -
I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
Kanye West -
I was ordered by the Colony to go to the Island of Bermuda in order to seize on the Gunpowder in the British Magazines.
Abraham Whipple
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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.
Phil Collins Genesis -
A lot of my male vocal influences are British - people like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury and Robert Plant.
Adam Lambert -
Biographies of British pop celebrities are terrible.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
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.
Carles Puigdemont -
Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to overthrow an empire, but if you have to get some salt then get some salt. If you have to write some independent songs that are honest, just write them. If you have to do a day job stacking shelves, so be it.
David Knopfler Dire Straits -
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.
Kate Williams
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The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
Karel Reisz -
You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
Imelda Marcos -
I ought to have seized the initiative in 1938 instead of allowing myself to be forced into war in 1939; for war was, in any case, unavoidable. However, you can hardly blame me if the British and the French accepted at Munich every demand I made of them! (14th February 1945)
Adolf Hitler -
In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.
Andy Gibb