"You'll get unsociable people whatever the nationality, colour, race or creed. I guess the British abroad have probably got the worst record of anyone."

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Source : "Ken Loach and Paul Laverty". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2007.

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“A man hath riches. Whence came they, and whither go they? for this is the way to form a judgment of the esteem which they and their possessor deserve. If they have been acquired by fraud or violence, if they make him proud and vain, if they minister to luxury and intemperance, if they are avariciously hoarded up and applied to no proper use, the possessor becomes odious and contemptible.”

Source : John Jortin (1787). “Sermons on Different Subjects: By the Late Reverend John Jortin, ...”, p.75
“The very same British and American families who had combined to wreck the Indian textile industry in the promotion of the opium trade [...] combined to make the trade, a valuable source of revenue. In 1864 they joined forces to create causes for war and to promote the terrible War Between the States, also known as the American Civil War.”
“My father is Swedish and my mother is French.”
“In India a farmhand was caught in the act with his cow. He said he had bad eyesight and thought it was his wife.”
“You cannot win a War on Terrorism. It's like having a war on jealousy.”

Source : "David Cross: 'At least 25% of America has always been racist, xenophobic and backwards'" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2016.
“I honestly don't have a lot of friends that are actors. Most of my friends I've known since sixth grade and are out of the industry. It gives me a sense of reality rather than surrounding myself with a bunch of actors.”
“It is no use painting the foot of the tree white, the strength of the bark cries out from beneath the paint.”
“I'm a harsh critic, you know? I am.”

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