You don't realize that when you're young, and you're surprised there's a lot of people at your gig - you just think… — Stephen Malkmus Copy Share Image
The British Labour Party has always had a very strong "Atlanticist component," with an obsequiousness to American policies, and Blair represents this… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
Every empire has to get sucked down the drain. As a British person, I know how it feels. — John Oliver Copy Share Image
I do not personally regard the whole of the remaining cities of Germany as worth the bones of one British Grenadier. It… — Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet Copy Share Image
Recognising that an ostentatious cult of heroism and state service served an important propaganda function for the British elite does not mean,… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British… — Leslie Caron Copy Share Image
It was a heavenly summer, the summer in which France fell and the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk. Leaves were… — Eva Ibbotson Copy Share Image
For daughters of the new American billionaires of the 19th century, it was the ultimate deal: marriage to a cash-strapped British Aristocrat… — Daisy Goodwin Copy Share Image
The prospect of voluntarily travelling to a war zone with your young children is not one which most British women would ever… — Julia Hartley-Brewer Copy Share Image
To every man of us, Tobruk was a symbol of British resistance and we were now going to finish with it for… — Erwin Rommel Copy Share Image
Here's a viewer's guide to BP media briefings. Whenever you hear someone with a British accent talking about this on behalf of… — Anthony Weiner Copy Share Image
My Mother is Swedish and my Father is Scottish, he played for Charlton in the 1960's and was in the Army, he… — Richard Gough Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, there is a cultural divide between American and British actors regarding the self-promotion associated with new media. — Gina Bellman Copy Share Image
By 1956, London Transport was recruiting in Barbados, even loaning migrants the costs of their passage to Britain. British Rail placed ads… — David Olusoga Copy Share Image
The British audience was very important to me. I have always looked away from American to non-American audiences and so this was… — Robert Sheckley Copy Share Image
I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid. — Martin Fleischmann Copy Share Image
Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
You know of our sympathetic interest in this country in Iran's desire to control its natural resources. From this point of view… — Harry S. Truman Copy Share Image
The general's staff is a handpicked collection of killers, spies, geniuses, patriots, political operators and outright maniacs. There's a former head of… — Michael Hastings Copy Share Image
I always fly British Airways. I find them to be the most dependable and I need to be on time when I'm… — Toyah Willcox Copy Share Image
Most liberal-minded folk would like to think that since they are not hostile to people of a different race, racism is a… — Trevor Phillips Copy Share Image
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies… — Will Self Copy Share Image
In our day-to-day lives we're not very introspective - especially not British northern blokes. — Ant McPartlin Copy Share Image
In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more… — Linda Colley Copy Share Image
Being British, you see a lot of Australian movies and TV shows. — Paul W. S. Anderson Copy Share Image
I know the British press is very attached to the lobby system. It lets the journalists and the politicians feel proud of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
It is a British legacy that we have such a strict hierarchy that we can't even write a letter to our PM. — Arvind Kejriwal Copy Share Image
We [Americans] inherited British law, which is like the new "reforms" that are being made now, in the sense that people are… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Whether you agree with me or disagree with me; like me or loathe me, don't bind my hands when I am negotiating… — John Major Copy Share Image
As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that… — Douglas Pearce Copy Share Image
Sometimes markets err big time. Markets erred when they gave America Online the currency to buy Time Warner. They erred when they… — Michael Burry Copy Share Image
“In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
The British were sporting. They would accept a fight under almost all conditions. — Gunther Rall Copy Share Image
Its subject is the slow and erratic process by which the peoples of the British Isles learnt - and then for long… — Nicholas Rodger Copy Share Image
The basic policy of the British Government was that since the majority of people in Northern Ireland wished to remain in the… — John Hume Copy Share Image
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