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I used to live in a street in Bristol which was, depending on your tabloid of choice, either Britain's most dangerous street or a moral cesspit. People made judgments about me on where I lived. It affected me - it affected my life chances. That is going on today with people in social housing. That, to me, isn't acceptable. Sajid Javid

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I want to send a very strong signal to people who do think about making this journey - we will do everything we can to make sure it is not a success in the sense that I don't want people to think that if they leave a safe country like France that they can get to Britain and just get to stay. Sajid Javid

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To apologize for the Balfour Declaration would be to apologize for the existence of Israel and to question its right to exist. Here in Britain, we will not merely mark the centenary - we will celebrate it with pride. Sajid Javid

Celebrate Pride Will Mark Would Would-Be Merely Israel Exist Existence Question Declaration Apologize Right Here Britain

For all its bluster, the BDS campaign is most notable, I think, for its lack of success. Trade is booming; tourism is soaring. The media campaign is full of sound and fury, but to the majority of Britain today, it signifies nothing. Sajid Javid

Success Today Nothing Think Booming Fury Tourism Most Majority Trade Sound Campaign Lack Soaring Notable Full Media Britain

My parents were immigrants from Pakistan. My father has passed away now, but my father and mother were very proud of Britain, and they have always respected the country and always wanted to make a contribution. Sajid Javid

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I feel the art world in New York has a stronger following than Britain. If you go to a New York art district on a Saturday morning, it will be so busy with families and openings - art is much more ingrained in the culture. Sam Taylor-Johnson

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It was one thing to contain the Soviet Union in Europe because Britain, France, and Germany were all willing to join in. But will Japan and other Asian countries be willing to join in the containment of China? Samuel P. Huntington

Indeed, China may never acquire the geo-political influence and reach that Great Britain enjoyed in the 19th century and the United States of America did in the 20th, even though it may have already surpassed the geo-economic clout the two major powers enjoyed in the heyday of their empires. Sanjaya Baru

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Casting me as King Arthur was quite bold of 'Spamalot's producers, although it has been historically proved Arthur was Asian, and that Sunday trading started with Asians in 11th-century Britain. Sanjeev Bhaskar

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My head is in India, yet my body remains in Britain. I straddle the world like a colossus. Like a 5ft. 7in. colossus. Sanjeev Bhaskar

World India Remains Head Like Body Britain

Apex predators are good for an environment in terms of biodiversity and trophic cascade - we have very few. But realistically, only a few areas could sustain free-roaming wolves in Britain, mostly in Scotland. Sarah Hall

Good Few Cascade Only Area Could Environment Terms Mostly Wolves Very Scotland Predators Sustain Realistically Apex Biodiversity Britain

If Britain is going to investigate journalists as terrorists - take and destroy our documents, force us to give up passwords and answer questions - how can we be sure we can protect our sources? Sarah Harrison

Our Destroy Give Investigate Take Journalists Protect Force Documents Sure Answer How Terrorists Sources Questions Up Going Us Britain

Britain proves to be an ideal setting for many a medieval-minded crime novelist, regardless of century. Sarah Weinman

Crime Setting Ideal Proves Regardless Century Many Novelist Britain

What happens in Britain, what happens in the world, matters a lot to us in our core business. Satya Nadella

Business World Matters Our Lot Happens Us Britain Core

I don't do as many readings as I used to. There was a time when I was on the road a lot more, at home in Ireland, in Britain, in Canada and the States, a time when I had more stamina and appetite for it. Seamus Heaney

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I've found contemporary Britain difficult to write about because it seems to me to have lacked gravity or grandeur. This is some cultural problem which I don't really understand. It simply isn't the same in the United States. Sebastian Faulks

My dad was fairly well-off, so I was raised in a very comfortable environment: the very nice suburbs of Paris. It was a very idyllic life. I also spent nearly all my summers in Britain, and Christmas, too, because my grandparents lived there. Sebastian Roche

I was a major Anglophile. My brothers and I were raised knowing both languages, French and English. My dad was born in Austria, educated in Britain, and then went back to France. My mom was born in England, but raised in Egypt and Malaysia. We were a globetrotter family. Sebastian Roche

Britain leads the way in fund raising. I am so proud of Britain. Sharon Osbourne

Way Leads Proud Am Fund Britain Raising

Would physics at Geneva be as good as physics at Harvard? I think not. Rome? I think not. In Britain, I don't think there is one place, neither Cambridge nor Oxford, which can compare with Harvard. Sheldon Lee Glashow

Good Physics Think Harvard Neither Would Geneva Cambridge Nor Oxford Rome Place Which Compare Britain

The recession of the late 1980s was a very visible humiliation. Cities across Britain had become the victims of botched battlefield surgery - surgery that involved the ripping up of factories, the flattening of buildings, and the razing of the Victorian heritage of heavy labour. Simon Beaufoy

What I would argue in my defence is that shows like 'Britain's Got Talent' and 'The X Factor' have actually got people more interested in music again and are sending more people into record stores. Simon Cowell

It was the Sephardi Jews who brought fish and chips to Britain, actually, believe it or not, from the Mediterranean world. Apart from actually eating and selling fish and chips, they were kind of debt enforcers. Simon Schama

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I just get offered a lot more work in America than I do in Britain. Sophie Okonedo

Work More Lot Offered Than America Get Just Britain

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