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Tony Blair on Enoch Powell
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Baroness Thatcher
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Robin Cook on Iraq
There is no proof, and it is possible that some of these are accidents. But in the past, even when it was as dry, there were never as many fires as this. They have only begun after the companies came in, the companies and their politics. But we cannot prove it, so we keep silent.
Village headman, Dayak tribe, Borneo
I did like using the Victoria line. But I think there must be too many art students or something living on that line, because they were always stealing my work before it could be seen by many people.
The guerrilla Tube artist known as N, now under investigation by transport police
This director said: "You have everything wrong with your face." I never got over it.
Dame Judi Dench on how she was put off acting in films for years
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Dr George Carey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on the General Synod's overwhelming vote to include the modern, plain-English version of the Lord's Prayer in new service books
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Phyllis Hamer of Bolton, on "Operation Bolton" being used as the new Gulf War code name
Once you succumb to Tony's charm, you never really get over it.
Cherie Booth on Tony Blair
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Mohamed Al-Fayed
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Susannah York, speaking against possible closure of the Waterside Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon
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Clare Short
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