Quotes with britain

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  • Dean Acheson Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
    Dean Acheson
    American statesman and lawyer. (1893 - 1971)
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  • Richard Dawkins In Britain, Christianity is dying. Islam, unfortunately, isn't.
    Richard Dawkins
    English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author (1941 - )
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  • Henry David Thoreau The government of the world I live in was not framed, like that of Britain, in after-dinner conversations over the wine.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Ringo Starr America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
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  • Theresa May Brexit must mean control of the number of people who come to Britain from Europe, and that is what I will deliver.
    Theresa May
    British politician (1956 - )
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  • Barbara Castle Britain in the 1970s was undoubtedly an economic mess because of the oil price explosion.
    Barbara Castle
    British Labour Party politician (1910 - 2002)
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  • Bill Bryson Britain still has the most reliably beautiful countryside of anywhere in the world. I would hate to be part of the generation that allowed that to be lost.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Brendan Coyle Britain's a funny place and there's a lot of funny people coming out of there and a lot of people are finding mediums to express themselves.
    Brendan Coyle
    English-Irish actor (1962 - )
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  • Bono But more than anything else, for the British folks Irish people were all terrorists. So when we went to Britain, it was always a lot of resistance to U2. And that's why we came to America.
    Bono
    Irish singer, songwriter, philanthropist, activist and businessman (1960 - )
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  • Anne Campbell Cambridge is thriving and Britain is working. We have been telling people - 'if you value it, vote for it' - and this is particularly relevant in Cambridge.
    Anne Campbell
    English politician (1940 - )
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  • Ahmed Ben Bella Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.
    Ahmed Ben Bella
    Algerian politician, socialist soldier and revolutionary (1916 - 2012)
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  • Bob Ainsworth Failure in Afghanistan would have profound consequences for our national security. It would undermine the NATO alliance structure that has been the bedrock of Britain's defence for the last 60 years... I will not allow this to happen on my watch.
    Bob Ainsworth
    British Labour Party politician (1952 - )
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  • Andrew Morton For a time during the 1980s the Royal Family were not just the most influential family in Britain but probably in Europe and Prince Charles specifically was very much like a defacto Cabinet member and what he said actually had impact on public policy.
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  • Ann Veneman Great Britain had a much different situation than we do and did here in the United States, in that they had literally thousands of infected animals with human health risks. Their infectivity in this disease happened before very much was known about it.
    Ann Veneman
    American politician (1949 - )
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  • Kazuo Ishiguro I grew up in Britain before it became a multicultural place, so in many ways I have a nostalgia for an England that's vanished - the England of my childhood has actually disappeared.
    Kazuo Ishiguro
    English novelist and screenwriter (1954 - )
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  • Burn Gorman I know in Britain with 'Doctor Who' all the classic actors, and the people who you'd really want to, work on the show. I like that the fact that 'Torchwood' has actors that want to be involved from the stage. It has raised our game, and I'm just happy for good actors who want to be in sci-fi shows who love the genre.
    Burn Gorman
    British actor and musician (1974 - )
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  • Anne Stevenson I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Margaret Thatcher If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
    Margaret Thatcher
    British Prime Minister (1979-1990) (1925 - 2013)
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  • Buchi Emecheta In all my novels, I deal with the many problems and prejudices which exist for Black people in Britain today.
    Buchi Emecheta
    Nigerian-born British novelist (1944 - 2017)
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  • Anthony Sampson In America journalism is apt to be regarded as an extension of history: in Britain, as an extension of conversation.
    Anthony Sampson
    British writer and journalist (1926 - 2004)
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