'London' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
Peter Ackroyd
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London made my family and myself.
Sadiq Khan
FamilyMyselfLondonMade
I like connecting to places by foot, and I'm interested in experiencing how somewhere like Crieff connects to somewhere like London.
Rory Stewart
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A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in London.
Charles Kingsley
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I don't think it's any different if I'm in the U.S. or in London. I look at operations globally.
Shahid Khan
ThinkLookLondonOperationsAny
I think London's sexy because it's so full of eccentrics.
Rachel Weisz
ThinkSexyLondonBecauseI Think
I never carry a notebook while walking around London. I just pick those things up. I'm very good at quizzes.
Ruth Rendell
GoodWalkingLondonNeverUpCarry
Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.
Bjorn Ulvaeus
MusicMeSummerLondonFirstBig
People drive everywhere in L.A., so you get very little human interaction... but N.Y. and Chicago are like London... L.A. lacks the social interaction.
Seal
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For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.
Orlando Bloom
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The Five Points was the toughest street corner in the world. That's how it was known. In fact, Charles Dickens visited it in the 1850s and he said it was worse than anything he'd seen in the East End of London.
Martin Scorsese
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I do explore the city if I have the time for it, but normally, I would rather stay relaxed at home. London can be a stressful place because it's crowded and it's a big city.
Alexis Sanchez
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The original Return of the Living Dead, I was attached to direct it, and I wrote the story. Production was delayed. In the meantime I went to London to do Lifeforce.
Tobe Hooper
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Even in this globalised world, London is still the standard for our times. The city has embraced the world's diversity and represents the finest in human achievements.
Narendra Modi
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The first time I was in London, I went to an English greasy spoon to get some breakfast and realised that all the waiters were speaking Italian. That's when it hit me what an international city this is.
Monica Bellucci
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I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis.
Albert Finney
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I have bronze in Beijing, silver in London, and now gold in Rio. It is the perfect story.
Nino Schurter
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
Naomi Campbell
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My goals are to run the London Marathon and do the best that I can.
Mo Farah
GoalsBestI CanRunLondon
London is the most important city in the world for restaurants.
Alain Ducasse
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I moved to London, and it's a cliche to say that London is a melting pot, but it's true - I didn't stand out anymore.
Noma Dumezweni
StandSayTrueLondonOutMoved
London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
Laura Mvula
SchoolCoolReputationLondonBeing
I won't eat offal. Once, I was in London at the Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, which is this really fancy eating establishment and hotel, and I almost got conned into eating testicles. It was one of the most delicious meals I've ever eaten, about twelve courses. That was one of the courses.
Lucy Punch
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Long commutes and traffic jams once associated with older, established cities such as London, New York or Tokyo are spreading throughout the world's emerging economies.
William Clay Ford, Jr.
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