Sweden Quotes - Page 4

• People in different cultures think very differently about abortion. Abortion is not seen as a moral problem for example in Sweden or Russia, but it is seen as a difficult moral problem in China and in the USA.

  Torbjorn Tannsjo

  Thinking, Russia, Usa

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.

  Hannes Holm

  Talking, Disease, Finnish

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• The Pirate Party started in Sweden in 2006, and it only had one agenda: to change draconian copyright laws. But it's changed and shifted primarily because the questions of human rights and cyber have become much more relevant. So if you want to place it somewhere on the spectrum, I would say it's a party that has its roots in civilian rights. But we are not like many left parties that want to regulate citizens and create nanny states. We believe that regulation should be on the powerful, not the individuals.

  Birgitta Jonsdottir

  Powerful, Party, Believe

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cameras, Video, Firsts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I was wondering, do we get the best of Swedish music or just the best of Swedish music that speaks English? Sweden has a population of nine million. And with all these acts coming out it just seems like very ripe for musical success. I don't know how they do it.

  Mike Pesca

  Speak English, Musical, Population

  "Madonna, Santogold Make Dance Records". Interview with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. April 29, 2008.

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• Over the last fifteen years, every single person the U.S. has tried to extradite from Sweden has been extradited, and they refuse to provide a guarantee [that won't happen].

  Julian Assange

  Years, Guarantees That, Fifteen

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Average, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The U.N. [the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention] has looked into this whole situation. They spent eighteen months in formal, adversarial litigation. [So it's] me and the U.N. verses Sweden and the U.K. Who's right? The U.N. made a conclusion that I am being arbitrarily detained illegally, deprived of my freedom and that what has occurred has not occurred within the laws that the United Kingdom and Sweden, and that [those countries] must obey. It is an illegal abuse.

  Julian Assange

  Country, Law, Abuse

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• It's frustrating when you come over here [Hollywood], especially from a position that I was in, in Sweden, where most people know who you are, but then you come here.

  Joel Kinnaman

  People, Hollywood, Frustrating

  Source: collider.com

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

  Theodore Bikel

  Country, Art, Pride

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• I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Clothes

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• After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

  Frank O'Hara

  Nice, Stupid, Writing

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.382, Univ of California Press

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• Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

  Bill Bryson

  Eating, Series

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said.

  David Levithan

  Country, Mean, Political

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• I don't think I'm ever going to get to the point where people run across a freeway to take a picture of me. I really don't see it getting to that level of hysteria unless I have an affair with the Queen of Sweden or something like that.

  James McAvoy

  Running, Queens, Thinking

  "James McAvoy Interview - ATONEMENT". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. December 12, 2007.

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• It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.

  Caroline Ouellette

  Team, Moving, Hockey

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• Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Mother, Father

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• In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Perfect, Feelings, Surface

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• I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Eight, Ties, Born

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• Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Country, Art, House

  "'King of Devil's Island': Stellan Skarsgård mentors" by G. Allen Johnson, www.sfgate.com. January 05, 2012.

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• I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

  Drew Curtis

  Thinking, Hot, Naked

  "An Interview With Fark’s Drew Curtis". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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• You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Powerful, Desire

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• Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Growing Up, Couple

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• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  Carl David Anderson

  Home, Heart, Special

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• We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Czech Republic, Prague

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