"We have been in recess since July, and during that time there have been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the Euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role."

-- Tony Benn

#War Quotes #July Quotes #Play Quotes

“But I loved the script to 7th Heaven and couldn't say no. It made me laugh and cry, and I was hooked. I'd love to know who turned it down, because I'm sure at least one other actor did. But I'm glad he did, whoever it was.”
“I do not like broccoli. And I haven't liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I'm President of the United States and I'm not going to eat any more broccoli.”
“I chose to have a career, and I enjoyed it while I had it.”
“In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.”
“The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art.”
“If you really look at hip-hop dance, it's really a rites-of-passage thing. You never see the arms release down. They're always up in fighting position. It's going to war. What do we say? We say your're going to battle. You go out there and fight.”
“I feel calm when I'm on my own.”
“I don't believe stores should stock clothes below or above a certain weight. They should be made to feel uncomfortable when they go in and can't find a size.”

Source : "Jamelia AXED from Loose Women 'after infuriating bosses with insensitive comments that could offend viewers'" by Nicola Agius, www.mirror.co.uk. October 19, 2016.

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