British Quotes
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Kenya is rapidly developing its industry and manufacturing, and its cultural identity as a new country. We had a humongous history pre-British, and when we were colonized and violently reshuffled, we had to decide who we were again. We couldn't rest on the stories and the cultures of our great-grandparents.
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I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.
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I have a lot of respect for the British people and the passion which they have for football, the full stadiums.
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British blues was my favorite music, and it still is.
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I am in the habit, like most British people, of holding the door open for people. But in the U.S., people don't understand it. You get odd looks or doors slammed in your face.
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British Conservatives base their entire approach to politics on the rule of law, and rightly so.
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I figured that to be a writer I would need to have been born in the nineteenth century, be British, or have three names. So I turned my sights elsewhere . . . to acting.
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The British retreat is over and now the advance will begin.
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The British press hate a winner who's British. They don't like any British man to have balls as big as a cow's like I have.
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Americans like the British kind of quirkiness and the strange accent. They find it kind of cute or something, with a certain charm.
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Although I'm living in California, I'm very proud to be British.
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When I saw the newspaper headline "Gas Chamber Expert Captured" and an American lieutenant explained it to me, I was pale in amazement. How can they say such things about me? I told you I was only in charge of the Intelligence Service from 1943 on. The British even admitted that they tried to assassinate me because of that, not because of having anything to do with atrocities, you can be sure of that.
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I understand why there's a natural suspicion of the "Next Big British Band."
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I want to be able to follow the example of those extraordinary British actresses who move effortlessly from film to TV to theatre roles.
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...the reality of intelligent British speech... uses blasphemus, coital and cloacal expletives as a matter of course.
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Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has always thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.
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My parents are British but they emigrated to America, where I was born.
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I'm bemused by the whole Robbie Williams aspect of British pop. Posh Spice? It all looks like cruise ship entertainment to me.
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Two famous happy warriors - Reagan and his political soulmate, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher - knew they were fighting their own ideological and external wars. But they did so with the sunny dispositions and positive outlooks of those who knew they were on the right side of history.
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I think the British learn their history through the prism of this gallery of grotesques known as the royals.
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As we conduct our negotiations it must be a priority to allow British companies to trade with the single market in goods and services but also, to regain more control of the numbers of people who are coming here from Europe.
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There's nothing worse than the British in one of their fits of morality.
