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My favourite sport at school was rugby. All sports are teamwork, but rugby particularly is about teamwork and I think teamwork is the essence of this.

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Gordon Brown
Age: 73
Born: 1951
Born: February 20
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I hope the Spice Girls will come back, although it may be beyond even Bob Geldof to get that to happen.
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America knows it has got to deal with its deficit problems so that it, too, can promise it is making its proper and best contributions to the world economy.
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...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.
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Britain does not want a return to boom and bust.
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I will listen and I will learn. I will strive to meet people's aspirations. I want to lead a government humble enough to know its place - where I will always strive to be - and that is on people's side.
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Jubilee 2000 is a broad coalition which has moved the earth.
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I don't think Jeremy Corbyn's going to stay, he's going to go. He knows parliamentary party have no faith in him.
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I'm a father that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
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