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I love going to England and discovering new places in the countryside. I love the English weather and the freedom that the place gives.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
The 19th century belonged to England, the 20th century belonged to the U.S., and the 21st century belongs to China. Invest accordingly.
Playing live, you can't survive, certainly not in England. We used to work daytime jobs and play gigs at night. It was very exhausting.
I love England. It's no coincidence it's the first place I moved to for a more cosmopolitan life, which is the only thing Iceland lacks.
I was born in Beijing and raised in England and America. I studied political science in college and film in graduate school in New York.
The money's there in England. They try to gather the best players. We do it differently here at Bayern. We have no investors, no owners.
I was growing up in England and England was the only national team I knew, so I was actually very pleased to play at the national level.
It's to remind our lads who they're playing for, and to remind the opposition who they're playing against. (on the 'This Anfield' plaque)
With the national team I had to go to Newcastle, Wales, I knew a little about England, but Wolves and Birmingham I did not know anything.
England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.
When England was a kingdom, we had a king. When we were an empire, we had an emperor. Now we're a country, and we have Margaret Thatcher.
According to the Bank of England the economy is growing too fast so interest rates must rise to counter the supposed inflationary threat.
In football, you can never say anything is certain. The benchmark is 38-40 points. That has always been the case. That will never change.
The RAF allowed me to play a lot of football, but like England later, they failed to recognise real talent when it was under their noses.
At the moment there are some England players who are the stars of their club teams, but not for their country. It's difficult to explain.
Kids in England will stop you on the streets and tell you bluntly they don't care for your current record. But it keeps you down to earth.
It was hard for an American to understand the contented acceptance by English men and women of permanent places in the lowest social rank.
England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.
My private life is very private, and I have chosen not to live in America or England, where you are so exposed and can't fight against it.
For me there's nothing better than putting the white shirt on for England and playing for England. I'd get worried if it wasn't like that.
No one has been buried at Mill Road Cemetery in Cambridge, England, for many years, and so the place has a shady, overgrown magic about it.
When people say England, they sometimes mean Great Britain, sometimes the United Kingdom, sometimes the British Isles, - but never England.
The Conservatives played like England cricketers - too many rash strokes and run-outs, dropped catches and bowling anywhere but the stumps.
Whoever heard a man of fortune in England talk of the necessaries of life? . . . Whether we can afford it or no, we must have superfluities.
Rosencrantz: I don't believe in it anyway. Guildenstern: What? Rosencrantz: England. Guildenstern: Just a conspiracy of cartographers, then?
I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England.
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
When earth gets good and crowded, like 15th century England, then some new Pilgrims are gonna rocket their Mayflowers to a new solar system.
Rock and roll came into my life when I was about 12, 13, when Little Richard and Chuck Berry had just started hitting the shores of England.
Everybody knows that England is the world of betting men, who are of a higher class than mere gamblers: to bet is in the English temperament.
If I went to Spain and lived there for five years, I'm not going to play for Spain. For me an English player should play for England, really.
You can take the boy out of England, but you can't take England out of the boy. And ummm, yes, I feel a huge emotional attachment to England.
I eat a bit too much; my teeth aren't perfect; I've got eye bags. I look like a normal 39-year-old woman - but in England, no one minds that.
In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.
They [the English] amuse themselves sadly as in the custom of their country. [Fr., Ils s'amusaient tristement selon la contume de leur pays.]
In France, it's easy to know which team is going to win the game, whereas in England, anywhere you play, you know it's going to be difficult.
Russia will not soon become, if it ever becomes, a second copy of the United States or England - where liberal value have deep historic roots.
England is nothing but the last ward of the European madhouse, and quite possibly it will prove to be the ward for particularly violent cases.
Though I am not imperial, and though Elizabeth may not deserve it, the Queen of England will easily deserve to have an emperor's son to marry.
England was full of words I'd never heard before - streaky bacon, short back and sides, Belisha beacon, serviettes, high tea, ice-cream cornet.
If England was what England seems, An not the England of our dreams, But only putty, brass, an' paint, 'Ow quick we'd chuck 'er! But she ain't!
The Queen of England is Defender of the Faith but the President of the United States is Defender of the Constitution, which defends all faiths.
If you pray for things, I am proof that they can happen. I want to repay the manager's faith in bringing me back. (on re-signing for Liverpool)
Midsomer Murders' is more about character and atmosphere. It portrays a kind of idealised rural England, just as the French like to imagine it.
Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
In Germany, you can play aggressively, but the referee will always blow his whistle, but in England, that's not the case. That's better for me.
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet.
The problem is that in our country, they make it almost impossible for politicians to win anything. In England it's easier to win a libel suit.
Although I don't have anything against people from other countries, the higher the influx into England the more the British identity disappears.