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Nigel Rees

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Nigel Rees
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 5
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More quotes by Nigel Rees

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I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.
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People will say what they want to say, in the way they want to.
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Democracy is too good to share with just anybody.
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I was terribly shy and never said anything in class. Then I started getting into school plays. When you've got words to say, you've got a sort of armour.
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I got into New College, Oxford. The ethos was that you could work - or not.
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Euphemism in the workplace does not end with job descriptions. It reaches a pusillanimous peak at the other end of the work process - in dismissal.
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Lord Castlerosse was taken to task by Nancy Astor over the size of his stomach. 'What would you say if that was on a woman?' she asked, pointedly. 'Half an hour ago it was,' he replied.
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I was broadcast-struck from an early age I had saved up for a tape recorder and started making programmes.
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Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
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