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So I don’t think I’ll make Poet Laureate, but I swear I’m not twisted and bitter, If finely-wrought talents don’t weigh in the balance, I can always write haiku on Twitter.


Rosy Cole


#contemporary-poets #new-releases #poetry #quotes #rosy-cole

Film-makers should remain true to their principles and never compromise, there is a real revival in the British film industry but there is a danger that we will become colonial servants of Hollywood. We need to maintain our own integrity.


Mike Leigh


#british #colonial #compromise #danger #film

It's certainly true that I was brought up in that British amateur tradition, the one which always held that if you were reasonably good at cricket, knew one or two Latin texts and a few zingy Oscar Wilde quotes for dinner parties, you were pretty much ready to go and run some outpost in Hindustan.


Damian Lewis


#amateur #british #brought #certainly #cricket

The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.


Francois Hollande


#attentive #been #british #city #europe

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.


Lord Beaverbrook


#does #hat #man #vote #wear

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.


Brian Ferneyhough


#aspects #british #certain #days #deeply

If there is to be any hope of prosperity for this country it is by reversing that policy which made us simply the kitchen garden for supplying the British with cheap food.


Eamon de Valera


#british #cheap #country #food #garden

I think British science is becoming more like American science - and then there is everybody else, I'm afraid.


Martin Fleischmann


#american #becoming #british #else #everybody

I give no more paroles to British officers.


Christopher Gadsden


#give #i #more #officers

You hear entertainers all the time, saying, 'If I couldn't get paid for this, I'd do it for free.' When's the last time you ever heard a business person say, 'If I couldn't get paid for being chairman of British Petroleum, I'd do it for free'?


Dick Gregory


#british #business #business person #chairman #entertainers






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