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Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.
Author:
Stefan Zweig
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That generation of Germans, along with volunteers from Denmark, Holland, even England and the Free India division and so on, we Europeans were alert and awake to the danger of Bolshevism.
Author:
Ernst Zundel
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I have never had the opportunity to play in England, so I know little about it.
Author:
Zinedine Zidane
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I got private lessons in keyboard at Julliard, before New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Author:
Bernie Worrell
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Perhaps that is why the novel flourished in England. You had these communities that would stay put and people would see one another all the time and cause one another to change and have the opportunity to observe the changes over time.
Author:
Tobias Wolff
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Yeah, we went to England to do a show and I got off the plane and I couldn't write my name or hold my hand up.
Author:
Johnny Winter
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I divide my time between homes in Arizona and England, six months a year in each place.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I've only been living in England for the last 10 years, if you don't count my student years.
Author:
Terri Windling
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When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
Author:
Terri Windling
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I see by your letter to my father that you are rather afraid the French may invade England.
Author:
William Wills
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I grew up in Cambridge in England, and my love of mathematics dates from those early childhood days.
Author:
Andrew Wiles
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After a couple years of occasional lessons with Pass I moved to Boston to attend the New England Conservatory.
Author:
Mark White
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I think in England you eat too much sugar and meat and not enough vegetables.
Author:
Arsene Wenger
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In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.
Author:
H. Wells
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You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.
Author:
Evelyn Waugh
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I'm William Wallace, and the rest of you will be spared. Go back to England and tell them... Scotland is free!
Author:
William Wallace
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Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.
Author:
Don Vliet
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The show I did in England catered to a broad range of people. I like that. I don't want nouveau cult status, though I know we've got that sort of audience in the states.
Author:
Tracey Ullman
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You have the Roman Catholic Church, the Church of England, the Presbyterians, the Wesleyans, represented in each school, and they are each to take alternate days.
Author:
Charles Tupper
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England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
Author:
Leon Trotsky
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What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.
Author:
Flora Tristan
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At the Imperial Conference on December 1, it was decided to make war against England and the United States.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Despite Japan's desires and efforts, unfortunate differences in the ways that Japan, England, the United States, and China understood circumstances, together with misunderstandings of attitudes, made it impossible for the parties to agree.
Author:
Hideki Tojo
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Shortly after that, we got management problems over in England, and Judas Priest asked me to join.
Author:
Glenn Tipton
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I don't think the Republicans would appreciate the comparison, but they're exactly like the Labor Party in England in the 1970s. They're letting their extremists take them straight down. The same thing is going to happen - they had to disappear for a while and when they reinvented themselves they did it with moderates, they did it with Tony Blair.
Author:
Evan Thomas
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It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
Author:
William Thackeray
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I like Target. I like the ones in the Midwest, personally. We don't really have those in England yet.
Author:
Roger Taylor
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There is probably nothing wrong with art for art's sake if we take the phrase seriously, and not take it to mean the kind of poetry written in England forty years ago.
Author:
Allen Tate
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I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.
Author:
George Takei
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even here, where the threatened torch of war was lighted.
Author:
Peter Stuyvesant
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Farming implements are as cheap in Sydney as in England.
Author:
Charles Sturt
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After that he turned to the question of invading England. Hitler said that during the previous year he could not afford to risk a possible failure; apart from that, he had not wished to provoke the British, as he hoped to arrange peace talks.
Author:
Kurt Student
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I learned to change my accent; in England, your accent identifies you very strongly with a class, and I did not want to be held back.
Author:
Sting
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I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.
Author:
Sting
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One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Author:
Patrick Stewart
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I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.
Author:
Edwin Starr
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It's such a performance to bring stuff into America. It's a great luxury when I am in England.
Author:
Terence Stamp
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What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
Author:
Sydney Smith
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Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.
Author:
Patti Smith
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There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class.
Author:
Martin Smith
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Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.
Author:
Martin Smith
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The natural barriers between England and Scotland were not sufficient to prevent the extension of the Saxon settlements and kingdoms across the border.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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Never had there been such an attempt to make conquest the servant of civilization. About keeping India there is no question. England has a real duty there.
Author:
Goldwin Smith
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The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.
Author:
Isaac Singer
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I look a hundred and weigh 110 - you won't love me when you see the wreck England has made me.
Author:
Wallis Simpson
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I played for 30 years, 20 with England and I did it by setting goals.
Author:
Peter Shilton
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What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
Author:
Mark Shields
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I remember my second game for England - we lost 2-0 to Norway, I was subbed and didn't do myself justice and I thought that was the end of my England career.
Author:
Teddy Sheringham
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I got a divorce eleven years later on the grounds of cruelty, which is still not easy in England.
Author:
Dinah Sheridan
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Author:
George Shaw
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We... our war began September the 3rd 1939, with the invasion of Poland by Germany, and thereafter the great state of danger in England at that time, with the bombings, necessitated the evacuation of children.
Author:
Peter Shaffer
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You will never have great tennis champions from England because of the cold and dark, but most of all because people only care about the sport for two weeks a year, and then they're on to something else. There's just not a great love of the sport there.
Author:
Monica Seles
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Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties.
Author:
Pete Seeger
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Ridley and I talk every day. Our family is very close because we're from North England.
Author:
Tony Scott
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And um, when I came back to England I put a very complex soundtrack on it, featuring everyone from Jimi Hendrix, right through to Neil Diamond, you know, everybody that was kind of popular who was kind of popular at that time.
Author:
Gerald Scarfe
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England was incredibly dull and everything exciting seemed to be in America.
Author:
Gerald Scarfe
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I'm a working-class kid from a blue-collar New England family.
Author:
R. Salvatore
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I was born in Bournemouth, England, in 1943.
Author:
J. Rushton
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I went to England in the '70s, and I was in my early 20s. There was still a residue of that era of being an underclass or colonial. I assume it must have been a more aggressive and prominent attitude 40 years before that, because Australia internationally wasn't regarded as having much cultural value. We were a country full of sheep and convicts.
Author:
Geoffrey Rush
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The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.
Author:
Robert Ross
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Here in New England, the character is strong and unshakable.
Author:
Norman Rockwell
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Ireland and England are like two sisters; I would have them embrace like one brother.
Author:
Boyle Roche
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I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.
Author:
Paul Robeson
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In England, there are so many TV commercials with nudity in them, and there are so many TV programs that show nudity on a regular basis. It's becoming more of a norm.
Author:
Mark Roberts
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Boy George is all England needs - another queen who can't dress.
Author:
Joan Rivers
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I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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When I get off the plane in England I always feel about two inches shorter.
Author:
Alan Rickman
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New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions.
Author:
Ellen Richards
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I have a group of people, about 40, in a local church in Surrey in England, who pray for me regularly.
Author:
Cliff Richard
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I've had two or three injuries when with England and it's been a bit bizarre.
Author:
Jamie Redknapp
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For better or worse, MTV sort of bridges the whole country together almost like the BBC does in England. It's opened up everything so wide that it's possible for everyone to have different ideas.
Author:
Joey Ramone
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Then my own TV chat show in England in 1989.
Author:
Suzi Quatro
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Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
Author:
Vladimir Putin
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My agent set up a meeting with George Lucas. They were casting in England.
Author:
David Prowse
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Oh, the ignorance of us upon whom Providence did not sufficiently smile to permit us to be born in New England.
Author:
Horace Porter
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Our children were mostly brought up and educated in the Churchill suburb east of Pittsburgh. Each summer, we took them back to England for an extended period.
Author:
John Pople
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England is better only because I stand out there as 'unusual'.
Author:
Emo Philips
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In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.
Author:
Simon Pegg
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In England, literary pretence is more universal than elsewhere from our method of education.
Author:
James Payn
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The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
Author:
Rand Paul
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Why should Ireland be treated as a geographical fragment of England - Ireland is not a geographical fragment, but a nation.
Author:
Charles Parnell
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Our New England climate is mild and equable compared with that of the Platte.
Author:
Francis Parkman
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England is very interested as well, and other countries if I could speak the languages!
Author:
Miranda Otto
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A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase.
Author:
George Orwell
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You seem in England to be entirely ignorant of the temper of our people.
Author:
Peter Oliver
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It is said, that in Holland Interest is lower than in England.
Author:
Dudley North
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In my judgment, if we had pursued this course, the zones would have been of short duration. England would have been compelled to take her mines out of the North Sea in order to get any supplies from our country.
Author:
George Norris
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In Japan, Australia, and England there is such a strong youth culture.
Author:
Marc Newson
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Though born in Nova Scotia, I am of almost pure New England descent.
Author:
Simon Newcomb
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When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all.
Author:
Howard Nemerov
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England expects that every man will do his duty.
Author:
Horatio Nelson
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Time passed by. I had furnished steam hammers to the principal foundries in England. I had sent them abroad, even to Russia. At length it became known to the Lords of the Admiralty that a new power in forging had been introduced.
Author:
James Nasmyth
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In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.
Author:
Parminder Nagra
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Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Author:
Ralph Nader
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The people of England are never so happy as when you tell them they are ruined.
Author:
Arthur Murphy
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He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Author:
Malcolm Muggeridge
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So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Author:
Robert Mugabe
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I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
Author:
Alison Moyet
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To escape jury duty in England, wear a bowler hat and carry a copy of the Daily telegraph.
Author:
John Mortimer
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I grew up in the early '70s in New England.
Author:
Thurston Moore
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We opened a design center in the South of England last year as part of our strategy for being close to our customers and developing innovative products for exciting new markets.
Author:
David Milne
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I really wouldn't want to live in America. I found New York claustrophobic and dirty. I missed England when I was there, simple things like smells and the British sense of humor.
Author:
Jonny Miller
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In England only uneducated people show off their knowledge; nobody quotes Latin or Greek authors in the course of conversation, unless he has never read them.
Author:
George Mikes
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When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
Author:
George Mikes
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On the Continent people have good food; in England people have good table manners.
Author:
George Mikes
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Judged by the law of England, I know this crime entails upon me the penalty of death; but the history of Ireland explains that crime and justifies it.
Author:
Thomas Meagher
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There is a tone of morality throughout the rural districts of England, which is unhappily wanting in the large towns and the centres of particular manufactures.
Author:
Henry Mayhew
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You are as safe with me as you would be in the Bank of England.
Author:
Robert Maxwell
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
Author:
W. Maugham
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We can talk about Manchester! I like coming here, it's a wicked city. It's my second favourite city in England after London. I like Liverpool too but there's a lot more to do in Manchester.
Author:
Dave Mason
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It is too maddening. I've got to fly off, right now, to some devilish navy yard, three hours in a seasick steamer, and after being heartily sick, I'll have to speak three times, and then I'll be sick coming home. Still, who would not be sick for England?
Author:
John Masefield
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The air of England has long been too pure for a slave, and every man is free who breathes it.
Author:
James Mansfield
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Whoso pulleth out this sword of this stone and anvil is rightwise king born of all England.
Author:
Thomas Malory
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It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober.
Author:
William Magee
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
Author:
Patrick Macnee
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Such night in England ne'er had been, nor ne'er again shall be.
Author:
Thomas Macaulay
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I know there's some kind of history to mountain music-like it came from Ireland or England or Scotland and we kept up the tradition.
Author:
Loretta Lynn
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When on my return to England I showed the cast of the cranium to Professor Huxley, he remarked at once that it was the most ape-like skull he had ever beheld.
Author:
Charles Lyell
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New England has a harsh climate, a barren soil, a rough and stormy coast, and yet we love it, even with a love passing that of dwellers in more favored regions.
Author:
Henry Lodge
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Instead of having to be a member of the Royal Society to do science, the way you had to be in England in the 17th, 18th, centuries today pretty much anybody who wants to do it can, and the information that they need to do it is there.
Author:
Seth Lloyd
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My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
Author:
Desmond Llewelyn
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The Church in England is the Church of England.
Author:
Joseph Lightfoot
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When I came to England at the very beginning of commercial television it was easy for me because I was only doing one or two shows a week at most. It was really a holiday.
Author:
Richard Lester
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An actor has to be very, very careful, as one of the most wonderful props - and actors love props - is a cigarette. There's so much to do with it: you can bring it up to your face, play with the smoke. It's just the greatest - ever since I was 16 and in acting school in England, I've been playing around with cigarettes.
Author:
Melissa Leo
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The New England Journal of Medicine reports that 9 out of 10 doctors agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
Author:
Jay Leno
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I was a star in England, but I've never been a star in America. Now I am.
Author:
Anna Lee
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I felt that in time simple stone tools would be found in early Pleistocene in England.
Author:
Louis Leakey
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In England and America people tend to graze all day long, but I think it's such a waste to be constantly picking at food because you then can't enjoy a proper full meal when the time comes.
Author:
Nigella Lawson
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On the same line of reasoning, if Australians were to be Australians, or rather if Australians were as separate from any other nation as Australia from any other land, there would be no jealousy between them on England's account.
Author:
Henry Lawson
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England are numerically outnumbered in the midfield.
Author:
Mark Lawrenson
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Figo is as important to England as Beckham is.
Author:
Mark Lawrenson
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The people of England have been led in Mesopotamia into a trap from which it will be hard to escape with dignity and honor.
Author:
T. Lawrence
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I am quite prepared, if we can do it without any disrespect to the Crown of England, to bring our titles to the marketplace and make a bonfire of them.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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I am a subject of the British Crown, but whenever I have to choose between the interests of England and Canada it is manifest to me that the interests of my country are identical with those of the United States of America.
Author:
Wilfrid Laurier
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My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.
Author:
Lillie Langtry
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Will I return to England? I don't know. I'll think it over.
Author:
Lillie Langtry
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Growing up in New England, being schooled and classically trained, it needed to shake, it needed to evolve.
Author:
Emeril Lagasse
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In my opinion, the form of Government may be different in different countries, according to their circumstances, their wishes, their wants. England loves her Queen, and has full motive to do so.
Author:
Lajos Kossuth
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My father was in the coal business in West Virginia. Both dad and mother were, however, originally from Massachusetts; New England, to them, meant the place to go if you really wanted an education.
Author:
John Knowles
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Y'all are so cute and y'all talk so proper over here. I love England.
Author:
Beyonce Knowles
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In England, it's now Sir Ben. Mister has just disappeared. It's not even on my passport anymore. They've taken Mister away from me.
Author:
Ben Kingsley
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Continuity is one of the things I like about New England.
Author:
Tracy Kidder
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There's a lot of people who don't understand the circle crops in England. Pure enigma.
Author:
Ken Kesey
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My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.
Author:
Patrick Kennedy
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I was born in Middlesex, England, which is really London.
Author:
Charles Keating
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The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.
Author:
Steven Katz
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Around the property I have here, I'm about to put an all weather race track. I'm about to build stables. I'm about to ship over a couple of my thoroughbreds from England.
Author:
Davy Jones
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I've got a farm in England where I breed horses.
Author:
Davy Jones
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We did an album one time called White Mansions, about the civil war, but it was written by a guy from England. His looking at it from over there and it not being a part of his history made it so he could be objective.
Author:
Waylon Jennings
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It was doing very well; it was doing particularly well outside of England. It was a very big seller for Carlton Television. But it was getting more and more expensive to do.
Author:
Derek Jacobi
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Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, that's 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.
Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro
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At age 10 or 12 he's going to boarding school in the Isle of Wight. The Isle of Wight is, of course, down at the bottom of England just off South Hampton.
Author:
Jeremy Irons
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We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
Author:
Neil Innes
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I left my country because I was forced to, and I do not think that I am going to lose my language because I live in England.
Author:
Guillermo Infante
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At the present moment the people of England are only three-quarters fed, and the result of this improvement in the export of our manufactures would be, that they would be entirely fed.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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Fortunately for England, all her imports are raw materials.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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Land, in England, is valuable, because we have highly-paid artisans to consume the produce on the spot.
Author:
Joseph Hume
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They'll always be an England, even if it's in Hollywood.
Author:
Bob Hope
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In England, it's thought to be morally suspect to worry about what your surroundings look like.
Author:
Howard Hodgkin
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If anything, there's a difference in working with color in England and the color in the US.
Author:
Jim Henson
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It has always been difficult to get Big Bird to be very pretty. Big Bird in England is much more gorgeous.
Author:
Jim Henson
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The only legitimate artists in England are the architects.
Author:
Benjamin Haydon
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The Stuart sovereigns of England steadily attempted to strengthen their power, and the resistance to that effort caused an immense growth of Parliamentary influence.
Author:
Albert Hart
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More emphasis was thus thrown upon the local governments than in England.
Author:
Albert Hart
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The participation of the people in their own government was the more significant, because the colonies actually had what England only seemed to have, - three departments of government.
Author:
Albert Hart
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
Author:
Randy Harrison
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If war should break out between England and Japan, the latter would suffer much more than the former.
Author:
Townsend Harris
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If there ever was a militant religion, it was that of early New England.
Author:
Paul Harris
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While the struggle for religious liberty had proceeded without large-scale bloodshed in New England and elsewhere in the United States, the struggle for political liberty had not fared so well.
Author:
Paul Harris
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My heart is in the Church of England but not my mind.
Author:
Alister Hardy
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England is my wife, America my mistress. It is very good sometimes to get away from one's wife.
Author:
Cedric Hardwicke
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It was easy to present figures demonstrating the contrast between lead work in the United States under conditions of neglect and ignorance, and comparable work in England and Germany, under intelligent control.
Author:
Alice Hamilton
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Christianity is part of the Common Law of England.
Author:
Matthew Hale
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
Author:
Uta Hagen
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There's like a special group of people that come from different parts of the planet to study with me. It's nice. I just gave a workshop in Boston at the New England Conservatory, which was really nice.
Author:
Charlie Haden
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Well I grew up in England, and I was in the London police.
Author:
Tony Greig
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The one major disappointment I have is that I didn't get a hundred against India in India. I got lots of runs against India in England including a double hundred I am very proud of.
Author:
David Gower
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Shaking hands with the Queen of England was a long way from being forced to sit in the colored section of the bus going into downtown Wilmington, North Carolina.
Author:
Althea Gibson
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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.
Author:
Andy Gibb
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And though various organizations in America and England collected money and sent food parcels to these refugees, nothing was ever received by the Spanish.
Author:
Martha Gellhorn
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Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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Victorian architecture in the United States was copied straight from England.
Author:
Stephen Gardiner
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I always thought it hadn't influenced me very much, but I heard from many people from England that many motives from German fairytales are to be found in my books.
Author:
Cornelia Funke
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Coffee in England is just toasted milk.
Author:
Christopher Fry
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When I got there, all the pasta and science stuff hadn't quite caught on in England - things that were perfectly acceptable then wouldn't be tolerated now.
Author:
Robbie Fowler
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England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
Author:
E. Forster
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The weather in England can really darken your spirits.
Author:
Claire Forlani
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I was always ready to leave England for some absurd reason.
Author:
Claire Forlani
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Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.
Author:
C. Forester
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I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.
Author:
Colin Firth
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Well, I've always thought that my career was in England, really. I used to do more in the theatre, and I felt that I should be there. It's not far is it? It's amazing the way that special FX have taken a quantum leap in what they're capable of doing.
Author:
Albert Finney
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There was interest from clubs in Italy and England, I believe. But I've never been attracted by the way they play in Italy. Staying in Spain was always my preference.
Author:
Luis Figo
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Churchill knew the importance of peace, and he also knew the price of it. Churchill finally got his voice, of course. He stressed strategy, but it was his voice that armed England at last with the old-fashioned moral concepts of honor and duty, justice and mercy.
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Suzanne Fields
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There is a huge responsibility on all of us to get England through. It would be one of the biggest disasters in sports history if we blew it and we must make sure it does not happen.
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Rio Ferdinand
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I didn't expect to be dropped by England.
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Rio Ferdinand
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In a few years there will be only five kings in the world the King of England and the four kings in a pack of cards.
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King Farouk
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I love England and the historical aspect of it.
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Dennis Farina
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When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.
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Brian Eno
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Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
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Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.
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Elizabeth Elizabeth I
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The business of being a popular entertainer in England is just too hard.
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Andrew Eldritch
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I still like being in North of England and I keep a place there. But there are a lot of things about the Continent that are to be preferred. The social institutions work better, women have a better position in society and the food is another thing.
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Andrew Eldritch
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It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
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Philip Dunne
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But I love filmmaking - I'm not ashamed of that. You're sort of vilified if you say that in England.
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Minnie Driver
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The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.
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Benjamin Disraeli
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The previous year it had taken England all their time to beat the full German team in an international and I had taken with me the programme from that match.
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Dixie Dean
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Then we did what we called basically I suppose a club tour in England, which was the time I think that our second album came out, we club toured around the whole country where the venues were hold to five hundreds upwards to that sort of thing you know.
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John Deacon
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I don't think England is that gray but India is like a long drone.
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Ray Davies
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And getting married this autumn was certainly an additional incentive to spend rather more time in England.
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Jill Dando
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Men of New England, I hold you to the doctrines of liberty which ye inherit from your Puritan forefathers.
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Caleb Cushing
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The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
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Caleb Cushing
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I'd move to Los Angeles if New Zealand and Australia were swallowed up by a tidal wave, if there was a bubonic plague in England and if the continent of Africa disappeared from some Martian attack.
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Russell Crowe
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I find respect for a mediocre British composer, as opposed to a really good American, ridiculous because they automatically respect a composer if he's from England.
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John Corigliano
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I received an OBE from the Queen, which probably doesn't mean anything in America but is quite nice in England - the Order of the British Empire for services to drama.
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Joan Collins
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We'd played for years to half-empty clubs in England.
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Phil Collen
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I cannot separate the finances of India from those of England. If the finances of the Indian Government receive any severe and irreparable check, will not the resources of England be called upon to meet the emergency, and to supply the deficiency?
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Richard Cobden
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For me, the great problem growing up in England was that I had a very narrow concept of what God can be, and it was damn close to an old man with a beard.
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John Cleese
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Now the master paid a number of visits to England and, as a Cambridge man, it is a source of pride that he taught there for a longer period than elsewhere in my country.
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John Clark
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I had a place in England and was commuting from England to Australia, which is pretty stupid, but after two years I sort of knew what I wanted to do, more or less.
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Diane Cilento
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And they that rule in England, in stately conclaves met, alas, alas for England they have no graves as yet.
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Gilbert Chesterton
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When I was Governor of Massachusetts, we worked to get Sable Island gas into New England.
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Paul Cellucci
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In England, I'm a horror movie director. In Germany, I'm a filmmaker. In the US, I'm a bum.
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John Carpenter
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As regards this country, in which protection has always to some extent existed, it is the best customer that England ever had, and our demands upon her grow most steadily and regularly under protection.
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Henry Carey
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We must get back to a very strong Christianity... Christianity shaped America and England, and we need to get back to those moral foundations that made us great.
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George Carey
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This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.
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Jim Capaldi
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In England the only homage which they pay to Virtue - is hypocrisy.
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Lord Byron
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Tea-shops were to become my favourite haunts in England.
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Zola Budd
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Oh, to be in England now that April's there.
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Robert Browning
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I think England will win a Test. My concern is Australia will probably win two.
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Geoffrey Boycott
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I think we are going to see exciting cricket all the way. We are watching the two best teams in the world-and I think England will eventually go on to pip Australia by a single Test.
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Ian Botham
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The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, as well as more recent attacks in Madrid, Spain, and London, England, showed in a very tragic way just how vulnerable many areas of the world are to these sorts of actions.
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Jo Bonner
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England is a nation of shopkeepers.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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I came back out here from England and I was there for a while and it was beautiful and it is just great to see London going from Spring to Summer and Autumn.
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Orlando Bloom
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When I was in England doing Romeo and Juliet as a child star, I was interviewed by the British press, who are even more vicious and cruel than the Americans. So I have been extremely guarded ever since.
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Claire Bloom
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The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
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Brenda Blethyn
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The Royal Navy of England hath ever been its greatest defense and ornament; it is its ancient and natural strength; the floating bulwark of the island.
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William Blackstone
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Watch MTV and you can see what the music scene is like in England. The Spice Girls? Not a lot of creativity in the commercial area. There are still great musicians in England, but not a lot being heard that much.
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Jimmy Black
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If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.
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Joan Bennett
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We stay as a team. I might be England captain, but that doesn't mean I get treated differently.
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David Beckham
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I love scoring goals for England and playing for England. That's one of the reasons I didn't retire - I love playing for my country.
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David Beckham
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Since Sven Goran Eriksson took over, England have been fantastic.
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Franz Beckenbauer
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We are the last remaining country to allow ourselves two breaks in the season. You just have to look at England, Italy and Spain, they play right through the season. We on the other hand take six weeks off in the winter until the end of January, and that is a luxury.
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Franz Beckenbauer
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I was really small when jazz broke through in England and I can still remember sneaking off to the living room to listen to it on the radio - much to my parent's disapproval.
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Jeff Beck
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Here in England we live at a slower pace, have more time to enjoy things - like good jazz.
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Chris Barber
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My introduction to track racing was through the background of cross country running, which is not a sport perhaps as popular in America as it is in England.
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Roger Bannister
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I mean the interesting thing I think would be if something happened like, what happened in England where all these kids that all of a sudden can't afford the ticket prices.
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Lester Bangs
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Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you no longer think of the chalk cliffs of Dover; you think of the Rhine.
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Stanley Baldwin
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The sea from Dunkirk to Dover during these days of the evacuation looked like any coastal road in England on a bank holiday. It was solid with shipping.
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Douglas Bader
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
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Charles Babbage
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It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.
Author:
Charles Babbage
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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine.
Author:
Charles Babbage
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People in England were coming up to me, saying, My mother and father turned me on to your music. This happened to me 20 years ago. When I was 40 they were saying that.
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Roy Ayers
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England is so defined, the class system, your education. I think what was unique about the Canterbury scene.
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Kevin Ayers
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You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
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W. Auden
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The situation in America is when it starts moving there, all the bands from England move over to America and work from there, so that they're available all the time for everyone that wants them in person.
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Benny Anderson
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The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Author:
Cleveland Amory
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It came as a great shock to me when I heard that England and Soviet Russia had become allies. So much so that I thought that the people responsible in London were acting in a manner that no longer coincided with British imperial interests.
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John Amery
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American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.
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John Amery
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Kate Adie
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I welcome him like I welcome cold sores. He's from England, he's angry and he's got Mad Power Disease.
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Paula Abdul
