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Only 4 percent of all the companies owned in Scotland have their head offices in Scotland.

Quote by Sean Connery about companies, heads

Europe is completely reassembling. Scotland has as much importance in Europe and certainly in Asia and round the world.

Quote by Sean Connery about world

I left Scotland when I was 16 because I had no qualifications for anything but to join the Navy, having left school at 13.

Quote by Sean Connery about school

I went up to Scotland and made a documentary on shipyards. I did a month up there, appeared in it and directed it.

Quote by Sean Connery

I'm optimistic that there's a movement towards Independence. It's addressed all the time between the two major parties that the Labour party will give an Assembly to devolution in Scotland.

Quote by Sean Connery about independence, time

It's rather sad Scotland isn't on a par with France.

Quote by Sean Connery

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

Quote by Sean Connery about things

There's a spirit in Scotland which is rather sad because there's 20 million Scots in America, and possibly 25 to 30 percent of the Presidents of the United States are descended from Scots.

Quote by Sean Connery about spirit

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

Quote by Sean Connery about bad, people

They say there's a million guns out there that they cannot account for. And Scotland has the worst drug situation in Europe. Everybody knows where it is and they're powerless to do anything.

Quote by Sean Connery

We don't have the bridge between America and Scotland that Ireland has with America, and that's a real drawback.

Quote by Sean Connery about real estate

We've always been an island, and isolated. A lot of the attitude in Scotland is, they're not made to feel entitled

Quote by Sean Connery about attitude

When you hear someone from the very north of Scotland speaking, I think its nice, very musical and harmonious.

Quote by Sean Connery

I've spent most of my life in Scotland, and I haven't moved around a great deal.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about haven, life

It's easy for me to be a Scotsman because of the overwhelming feeling of most people in Scotland of being subservient to England and therefore having a chip on our shoulder.

Quote by Bill Forsyth about being, people

I met Jack Bruce, one of my heroes, in a studio while doing some recording. England had just beat Scotland in a big football match and I saw Jack trying to break into this refrigerator in the lounge, drunk out of his brain, and I didn't know what...

Quote by Andy Partridge about heroism, brain, football