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“In America, unlike England, unlike Israel, unlike Japan, other democracies, we have elections that have staggered terms.”

America Term Democracy England Election Israel Japan

Author:Barney Frank

“World' is a large term, but man must enlarge his allegiance, considering himself in the light of a world citizen... A person who truly feels: 'The world is my homeland; it is my America, my India, my Philippines, my England, my Africa,' will never lack scope for a useful and happy life. His natural local pride will know limitless expansion; he will be in touch with creative universal currents.”

“I think England has been in the long-term damaged by Britishness.”

Thinking Long Has Beens Term England Long Term

Author:Neal Ascherson

“It would be wrong to interpret the growth of British national consciousness in this period in terms of a new cultural and political uniformity being resolutely imposed on the peripheries of the island by its centre. For many poorer and less literate Britons, Scotland, Wales and England remained more potent rallying calls than Great Britain, except in times of danger from abroad. And even among the politically educated, it was common to think in terms of dual nationalities, not a single national identity.”

“Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.”

“The terms "idiot" and "lunatic" were acceptable diagnostic terms in England up until 1959. "Imbecile" and "feeble-minded person" were, likewise, listed as official categories in the 1913 Mental Deficiency Act. England has always lagged a bit behind in discarding outdated terms for the disadvantaged. When I was there in 1980, it was still possible to shop for used clothing at the local Spastic Shop. That is, compared to the United States, where it takes, oh, about twenty-five minutes for a diagnostic euphemism to become a conversational faux pas.”

Source: Six Feet Over: Adventures in the Afterlife

“People are piling into England, there's lots of studio films happening there. When we budget our films we multiply it by 1.55 it's much easier than when we multiply it by 2 so the cost looks a lot less in dollars, because everybody talks in dollars in terms of finance. And then the shift that I think is coming, I hope is coming, is movies made in a..."simple" is the wrong word, you visit movie sets all the time I imagine, the whole process has just got so big.”

People Thinking Looks Made Whole Bigs Film Process Term Simple Imagine Easier Cost Happenings England Dollars Studios Finance Budgets Movie Sets Wrong Words

Author:Eric Fellner

“It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.”

People Sometimes Shows Passion Courses Difficult Term Fans Missing Football England Passionate France Open Mind Open Minded

Author:Emmanuel Petit

“I have a cultural background that's shaped in England, France and Germany. Bringing that in is nice, in terms of how an actor plays a role or speaks in an interview.”

Play Actors Speak Term Roles Nice England Backgrounds France Germany Interviews

Author:Richard Sammel

“I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and her loneliness and her gaze out the window.Although it was set in England, it didn't feel to me like an overly English book. In terms of the use of cultural references, it was not extreme, so it was very simple to go from England to America in the adaptation.”

Feels Book Use America Film Girl Term Imagination Simple Loneliness Window England Train Extremes Location Adaptation

Author:Erin Cressida Wilson

“Why should you use a term [rebels] in the United States and England and maybe other countries and use another term in Syria ? This is a double standard that we don't accept.”

Should Country States Use Term United Accepting United States Standards England Rebel Other Countries Syria Double Standard

Author:Bashar al-Assad

“Can we say that the constitutional monarchies in Spain, Belgium or England are democratic? Those with superior chambers like the House of Lords in England, that still represent the English feudal nobility in terms of positions above regional representatives, who are in the end the representatives supposedly elected by the population. Many mechanisms exist, but they are mechanisms to preserve the power of the wealthy classes, of the bourgeois classes that hold the power and rights above the rest of the society.”

“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.”

People Trying Film Term Break Industry Hollywood England Good Things Bad Things Openness Appetite Suspicion Film Industry

Author:Christopher Nolan

“Here in England, everyone's a pop star, innit, whereas in America they believe in the term artist.”

Believe America Artist Stars Term England Pops Pop Stars

Author:Amy Winehouse

“You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 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.”

Mind God Feelings Lasts Night Term Rooms Approach England Steady Reluctant Me Alone Trinity Unrelenting Dejected

Book:Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis

Source: Yours, Jack: The Inspirational Letters of C. S. Lewis

“In terms of soccer, it wasn't really a thing that girls did. In England it more kind of Net Ball and Hockey and stuff like that in athletics. It's to each their own, really.”

Kind Girl Stuff Term Balls England Soccer Hockey Athletics That Girl

Author:Parminder Nagra

“Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which their occupation can be expressed. We borrow a foreign word [Savant] from another country whose high ambition it is to advance science, and whose deeper policy, in accord with more generous feelings, gives to the intellectual labourer reward and honour, in return for services which crown the nation with imperishable renown, and ultimately enrich the human race.”

Source: The Exposition of 1851; or, Views of the industry, the science, and the government of England