Sweden Quotes - Page 2

• I could hear the icy winds of Sweden, but he didn't seem to feel the chill.

  Janet Fitch

  Wind, Icy, Chill

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.

  Hannes Holm

  Locals

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I am very proud. It is always fun to win such a prize, to be chosen as Swedens best player a certain year.

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic

  Fun, Player, Winning

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• There are certain fixed rules that one observes for one's own comfort. For instance, never be flippantly rude to any inoffensive grey-bearded stranger that you may meet in pine forests or hotel smoking-rooms on the Continent. It always turns out to be the King of Sweden.

  Hector Hugh Munro

  Kings, Rude, Smoking

  Saki, Hector Hugh Munro (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Saki (Illustrated)”, p.297, Delphi Classics

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• I was more tuned into the assassinations, the riots that were going on, like in Watts, and, in fact, my summer before my senior year in high school I went on the Experiment in International Living to Sweden, yes, with a group of students , you know, leisurely discussion over the summer about, you know, where we were going to go with our lives, and how did you how did, you know, being a born-again Christian mesh with being, you know, a socialist from New York.

  Jill Stein

  Summer, Senior, Christian

  Source: www.politico.com

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• The public negotiations and secret intrigues of the English (Jews) and the French (Jews) have been employed for centuries in every court and country in Europe. Look back to the history of Spain, Holland, Germany, Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Prussia, Italy and Turkey for the last hundred years...all the power of Europe will be continually maneuvering with us to work us into the real or imaginary balance of power.

  John Adams

  Country, Real, Turkeys

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• In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.

  Pablo Francisco

  Men, Blonde, Changed

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• Norway, Iceland, Australia, Canada, Sweden, Switzerland, Belgium, Japan, the Netherlands, Denmark, and the United Kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. According to the United Nations' Human Development Report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . Conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the United Nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.

  Sam Harris

  Religious, Educational, Australia

  Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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• My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers geared to provide a steady rate of growth in the quantity of money. Fortunately for me personally, and for a select group of fellow economists, that conclusion has had no practical impact… else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honoured to receive.

  Milton Friedman

  Impact, Awards, Study

  Milton Friedman's Speech at the Nobel Banquet, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1976.

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• My television and movie career has also taken me all over the world. I've had great times in the Far East, Russia, South America and Sweden - where I met my wife of 55 years, Maj.

  Larry Hagman

  Taken, Russia, Years

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• I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible

  Raoul Wallenberg

  Men, Knowing, Done

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• Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.

  Maj Sjowall

  Country, Jobs, Able

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• There is something of the freshness of mind, of the lightness of spirit in Linne which for centuries has been linked in people's minds with the mountains of Sweden and Swedish joy in nature.

  Johannes V. Jensen

  People, Joy, Mind

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I heard the rumours,but the only blond people here [in Sweden] are the guys. And they all look like Ellen DeGeneres. It's Ellen DeGeneres world, and it's all guys! It's now switched.

  Pablo Francisco

  People, Guy, Looks

  Source: rocksucker.co.uk

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• My parents had an independent theater company here in Sweden during the 1980s, so I was raised watching my parents create independently, having a lot of fun and just doing what they wanted to do. I think that idea of independence as an artist was something I was always used to. And then I entered the industry from a very commercial perspective, and things were very different then from what I grew up with.

  Robyn

  Fun, Independent, Artist

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. February 25, 2008.

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• I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

  John Newcombe

  Eight, Eric, World

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• You may talk about Sweden, you may talk about Rome,
  but Rockville Center's Floyd Patterson's home.
  A lot of people said that Floyd couldn't fight,
  but you should have seen him on the comeback night.

  Muhammad Ali

  Home, Fighting, Night

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• I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.

  Bill Toomey

  Athlete, Oil, Disease

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• There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden. In a way, I feel that time doesn't exist in LA. Sometimes I don't know if it's February or April or October, because you're always sitting outside on the same patio, and it's 70 degrees.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  June, Degrees, Sitting

  "Alexander Skarsgard: Interview with a vampire". Interview with Aaron Hicklin, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2011.

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• I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.

  Gianluca Basile

  Basketball, Bronze Medal, World

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• I don't really have an issue with showing certain parts of my body. I'd rather not, but it's not a big deal. Growing up in Sweden, it's natural over there.

  Malin Akerman

  Growing Up, Issues, Body

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.

  Niklas Zennstrom

  Successful, Bigger, International

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• We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

  Noomi Rapace

  Thinking, Goal, Creative

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• I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.

  Knut Hamsun

  Generations, Lasts

  Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun, Hermann Hesse (1971). “Ernest Hemingway, Knut Hamsun [and] Hermann Hesse”

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• You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Nerd, Abba, Nerdy

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