Denmark Quotes - Page 3

• Denmark is charging a fat food tax on cheese, meat, and oil. Here, we call that the Denny's Grand Slam breakfast.

  Jay Leno

  Oil, Cheese, Meat

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• It's immoral and wrong that the top 1 percent of the USA owns almost as much wealth as the bottom 90 percent. We should look at countries like Denmark and Sweden and Norway and look at what they've accomplished for their working people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, Usa, People

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I was deeply distressed that the cartoons were seen by many Muslims as an attempt by Denmark to mark and insult or behave disrespectfully towards Islam or the Prophet Mohammed.

  Anders Fogh Rasmussen

  Islam, Cartoon, Insult

  "Rasmussen 'to give Turkey senior posts in Nato'" by Bruno Waterfied, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 6, 2009.

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• The one factor that you can't find on a spreadsheet is the willingness of the people in government to lead change, And in Denmark every single one of them is engaged and willing to do whatever it takes to get Denmark to be a leader in electric vehicles.

  Shai Agassi

  Government, Electric Vehicles, People

  "In Denmark, Ambitious Plan for Electric Cars" by Nelson D. Schwartz, www.nytimes.com. December 1, 2009.

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• The Danes are causing a bit of trouble. The kingdom of Denmark claimed the North Pole as their own. Hey, you can't just reach out and take something if you want it, Denmark. That's Russia's job.

  Craig Ferguson

  Jobs, Russia, Hey

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• What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'

  Lady Gregory

  Country, Morning, People

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.500, eBookIt.com

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• I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch.

  Simon Kuper

  Player, Support, Cups

  "Dutch Orange men get the blues" by Simon Hooper, www.cnn.com. May 10, 2002.

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• Alas, poor Yorick!" he said. "She heard mermaids, so it follows that there is something rotten in the state of Denmark. I have caught an everlasting cold, but luckily I am terribly dishonest. I cling to that.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Mermaid, Rotten, Cold

  Diana Wynne Jones (2002). “Wizard's Castle”

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• Coffee, according to the women of Denmark, is to the body what the Word of the Lord is to the soul.

  Isak Dinesen

  Coffee, Soul, Body

  Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.245, Vintage

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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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• There's something nearly mystical about certain words and phrases that float through our lives. It's computer mysticism. Words that are computer generated to be used on products that might be sold anywhere from Japan to Denmark - words devised to be pronounceable in a hundred languages. And when you detach one of these words from the product it was designed to serve, the words acquires a chantlike quality.

  Don DeLillo

  Japan, Quality, Phrases

  Don DeLillo, Thomas DePietro (2005). “Conversations with Don DeLillo”, p.97, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• A lot of people don't know if Denmark is a country or a cheese.

  Bassam Tibi

  Country, People, Cheese

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?

  Edward Abbey

  Play, Tyrants, Example

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• It's a great start, but we have a tough group: we have big teams like Denmark, Armenia and Serbia, so starting here gives us a good opportunity to fight until the end.

  Lorik Cana

  Soccer, Football, Team

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• The playbill, which is said to have announced the tragedy of Hamlet, the character of the Prince of Denmark being left out.

  Walter Scott

  Character, Tragedy, Said

  The Talisman introduction (1825). Source of the expression "Hamlet without the Prince." The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations notes that W. J. Parke, in Musical Memories (1830), "gives a similar anecdote from 1787."

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• Denmark needs change, Denmark needs to move on and Denmark needs my leadership.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Moving, Needs, Need A Change

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

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• We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Farewell, Opportunity, Years

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

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• I'd rather be voted "the sexiest man in Denmark" than "the ugliest man in Denmark".

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Men, Sexiest

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

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• The cartoonists treated Islam the same way they treat Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism and other religions. And by treating Muslims in Denmark as equals they made a point: we are integrating you into the Danish tradition of satire because you are part of our society, not strangers. The cartoons are including, rather than excluding, Muslims.

  Flemming Rose

  Buddhism, Islam, Cartoon

  "Why I Published Those Cartoons". www.washingtonpost.com. February 19, 2006.

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• Denmark is sadly a hellish place if you happen to be a pig, but the brioche and fruits that tower on the table before me have me hastily attaching a feedbag.

  Steven Morrissey

  Memorable, Pigs, Towers

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• For the longest time in Denmark I didn't want to say what I was politically. I thought it was irrelevant.

  Bjorn Lomborg

  Want, Irrelevant

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

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• ...Denmark should be a green and sustainable society with a visionary climate and energy policy...The answer to these challenges lies in the way we produce and consume energy and in our ability to adapt our society to climate change.

  Connie Hedegaard

  Lying, Wind, Challenges

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• I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe the Sharia should be implemented in Denmark. Maybe we should change the Christiansborg Palace [the Danish Parliament building] to Muslimsborg to have the flag of Islam flying over the parliament in Denmark. I think this would be very nice.

  Anjem Choudary

  Nice, Believe, Cutting

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• Olafur Eliasson is also one of the most visionary artists I've ever met. He is from Denmark and Iceland, and his focus is nothing less than the entire universe.

  Victor Pinchuk

  Artist, Iceland, Focus

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• I feel like giving myself a pat on the back. We can create history tonight. We can bid goodbye to 10 years of (Liberal-Conservative) government which has ground to a halt, and get a new government and a new majority in Denmark.

  Helle Thorning-Schmidt

  Goodbye, Government, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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