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Quotes by British Authors
"A woman who looks like a girl and thinks like a man is the best sort, the most enjoyable to be and the most pleasurable to have and to hold."
"We need to be able to go to school and feel safe and accepted for who we are."
"Money is always transitively valued. More money is supposedly always better than less money."
"I don't go by the rule book... I lead from the heart, not the head."
"I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction."
"I honestly believe that TV generally is obsessed with the ratings battle to the point of cutting its own throat."
"It's a very good idea that we have a third term Labour government led by Tony Blair for a full term."
"Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion."
"Of course risk-taking does not always pay off, but it's a lot of fun!"
"What's crucial is that the IRA produce a credible statement that paramilitary and criminality activity is a thing of the past. That they are committed to a future which is exclusively peaceful and democratic."
"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."
"No one is going to put their life on hold and do it for you " they are too busy frantically peddling their own lives along to stop and give you a hand."
"It's almost a responsibility for all the people of the United Kingdom, regardless of race, color or creed, and an understanding that you have an individual connection with each and every one."
"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
"Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved."
"For the first half of this century, High Court judges have been cautious to the point of timidity in expressing any criticism of governmental action; the independence of the judiciary has been of a decidedly subordinate character."
"I never make stupid mistakes. Only very, very clever ones."
"The USA government encourages gun ownership at the same time as they have allowed environmental radiation levels to become ridiculously high powered and this continues to increase annually. It will be interesting to see where this government experiment eventually takes the USA!"
"When I was trying to impress Kate I was trying to cook these amazing fancy dinners and what would happen was I would burn something, something would overspill, something would catch on fire and she would be sitting in the background trying to help, and basically taking control of the whole situation, so I was quite glad she was there at the time."
"The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target."
"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art... It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."
"Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react."
"Every part I play is just a variant of my own personality. No real character actor, of course, just me."
"It's very strong after the birth. It's extraordinary. You can't watch anything to do with kids being harmed."
"So our problem is not Labour, it is us, is making us attractive enough to gain disillusioned Labour support and to compete effectively with the Lib Dems for those loose votes."
"It's about the music and that's it. I'm not an entertainer. But I do entertain people, see what I mean?"
"I am interested in mathematics only as a creative art."
"Margaret Thatcher was fearful of German unification because she believed that this would bring an immediate and formidable increase of economic strength to a Germany which was already the strongest economic partner in Europe."
"When you have a crime against humanity that is so awesome in scale and death, it is more than permissible to look around and say, who recently has been declaring war on the United States? Of course, the compass points straight to bin Laden."
"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
"The difficulty is not that great to die for a friend, the hard part is finding a friend worth dying for."
"If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there."
"I don't think I can answer questions about the trust fund."
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