Look, he plays Davis Cup for Britain, but he's Scottish. He's Scottish first and British second, and there shouldn't be any misunderstanding about that.
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Jenny's like to cry;
For she hes weet her petticoats
In... MISS SUSANNA BLAMIRE AND MISS CATHERINE GILPIN We need the game against Scottish and then a full week's training to be ready for the new season, JAMIE TURNER One of the very, very exciting things I have found here in L.A. is that no one talks to you about be... PETER CAPALDI My family spans many world religions, ethnicities and nationalities. The truth is that I don't h... SARA SHERIDAN However she redefined herself, that part of one that made for the core of the self, that part that w... ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH No one cares about the Davis Cup. How many people know I won five Davis Cups and seven majors, but t... JOHN MCENROE The decision on whether there is another referendum is down to the Scottish people. NICOLA STURGEON Be Briton still to Britain true,
Among oursel's united;
For never but by British hands
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JOHANN LAMONT But I still wish I was out in the sunshine with the Scottish team. CHRIS BROWN Scottish Rite Hospital for Children took me in. I wore a brace for seven years. LACY HARBER Lord Maccon was Scottish-big; this gentleman was only English-big—there was a distinct difference. GAIL CARRIGER I see myself as a Scottish sky: there are rain clouds, rainbows and sunrays that run and overtake on... C. JOYBELL C. The importance of education is ingrained in Scottish history. NICOLA STURGEON Of course it is nothing like the old Scottish rally in my day, when we used to race right up to Inve... DAVID HIGGINS Scotland's political identity was destroyed, and a huge Scottish emigration to North America fol... TARIQ ALI My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. MIKE MYERS Of the Sturges family, much more is known than is available about poor Irish immigrants and obscure ... PRESTON STURGES Hobbits are a lot like Scots. It's all about nature and enjoying their land, which is a very Sco... BILLY BOYD My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia. KANIEHTIIO HORN [The Scottish Football Association gave the first indication yesterday it is prepared to drop opposi... ANDY MITCHELL I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots. CARICE VAN HOUTEN This is probably the best Scottish team we have had. GREGOR TAIT The reason is that a military defeat of Britain will bring about the disintegration of the British E... FRANZ HALDER What happens when there is a conflict between the Scottish parliament, if it was established, and th... JOHN MAJOR This is a book for every fiddler who has realized halfway through playing an ancient Scottish air th... NEIL GAIMAN That 1983 general election contained the telltale seeds of eventual Scottish Tory self-destruction. CHARLES KENNEDY (Dear kirk hammet, what kind of vegitarian are you? a lactose vegitarian, a ovum vegitarian, or a ve... JAMES HETFIELD I like Dali and Magritte. I also like the Scottish artist John Byrne, another surrealist. BILLY CONNOLLY It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch. DIANA GABALDON I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES The North American intellectual tradition began, I maintain, in the encounter of British Romanticism... CAMILLE PAGLIA I've got German, Cornish and Scottish ancestry. It might help explain my affinity for forests, t... KYLE MACLACHLAN In college, I got my roommate into this. It's a lot of fun. I love history. The historical aspect of... DALE CLINE I think there's no reason the Davis Cup couldn't be as powerful and popular and profitable a... JIM COURIER The follow-on from this is that E.ON is unlikely to re-bid for Scottish Power in the near term. ANGELOS ANASTASIOU Somebody sent me a British magazine listing the 20 worst dialects ever done in movies. I was No. 2, ... 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