My first book, Fast Forward, was about growing up in the shadow of Hollywood and how kids are affected by the culture… — Lauren Greenfield Copy Share Image
What good would it be to fight a war with the British and end up with your own king? Nobody had any… — Kevin Gutzman Copy Share Image
I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
I never talk about shooting anybody, but I do acknowledge I was a member of the IRA, and as a member of… — Martin McGuinness Copy Share Image
The British people voted for change.They sent us a clear instruction that they want Britain to leave the European Union and end… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
In the Fall of 1774 & Winter of 1775, I was one of upwards of thirty, chiefly mechanics, who formed ourselves into… — Paul Revere Copy Share Image
There is no desire from the new British players. They say their coach doesn't travel with them so it's hard, but I… — Tim Henman Copy Share Image
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I don't really believe in elegance. Ever since I first came to France many years ago to do the Chambre Syndicale course,… — Suzy Menkes Copy Share Image
The French manner of hunting is gentlemanlike; ours is only for bumpkins and bodies. The poor beasts here are pursued and run… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
"Bolshoi Babylon" is the work of filmmakers Mark Franchetti and Nicholas Read. Franchetti has been a Moscow-based journalist for 18 years. He… — Elizabeth Blair Lee Copy Share Image
Thomas Jefferson understood the greater purpose of the liberty that our Founding Fathers sought during the creation of our Nation. Although it… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
The British inclined more towards the feudal mentality, the feudal structures rather than the more radical progressive elements who would re-shape society… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
Maybe we were being a bit unrealistic, but we had this hope that if we could just get into the Ivy League,… — Sarah Strohmeyer Copy Share Image
I've found a lot of the thinking in America is that a lot of people become actors to become famous. At least… — Nolan North Copy Share Image
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The Declaration of Independence pronounced the irrevocable decree of political separation, between the United States and their people on the one part,… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
I can't imagine anyone ever again being able to make a film like, say, Summer Holiday, for instance, to give a British… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
At the beginning of my career, as a boy from Peru in London, suddenly discovering British culture and society, I looked so… — Mario Testino Copy Share Image
I think we all love to watch something we know is going to go catastrophically wrong - the old banana skin syndrome,… — Sarah Alexander Copy Share Image
The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out… — Nick Harkaway Copy Share Image
I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a… — Alan Titchmarsh Copy Share Image
The old style of British wrestling is a lot different than the American style, and that's what I was trained in. It's… — Pete Dunne Copy Share Image
This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
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No British Prime Minister of the last seventy years has been more harshly stereotyped than Stanley Baldwin. No one has been so… — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
I often find myself privately stewing about much British art, thinking that except for their tremendous gardens, that the English are not… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because… — Milo Yiannopoulos Copy Share Image
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The BAFTAs give the British point of view, and the Oscars give the American point of view, but the truth is we're… — Ian Mckellen Copy Share Image
We need to stop all this over-puffiness of how wonderful everything is going to be when we leave the E.U. Because it's… — Anna Soubry Copy Share Image
It was on this day that the Bahamas declared independence. Before that they were a British colony. The British Empire lost Canada… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
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You can say "ass," but you can't say "asshole." That's why I always cringe when a character in a TV show refers… — Gilbert Gottfried Copy Share Image
I love books; my suitcases are always full of them. Books and shoes. I read when I am sad, when I am… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
A similar move is underway in the British Parliament. Earlier this month, more than 30 religious leaders and scholars wrote Secretary of… — Tom Gjelten Copy Share Image
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