Dutch Quotes - Page 3

• They do not air 'GH' in Holland, so I don't get recognized. But the Dutch are wonderfully unimpressed with celebrity, so even if the show did play over there it probably wouldn't affect things much. It's a wonderful life and I am so blessed.

  Anthony Geary

  Blessed, Air, Play

  "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I can't wait for the next fad though, and I predict it's going to be Pennsylvania dutch culture, very Amish. It's going to be bonnets and butter churns.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Waiting, Pennsylvania, Culture

  "Janeane Garofalo". TV comedy special, 1997.

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• As Dutch, British and French explorers literally put this Great Southern Land on the map it would be ridiculous to say that modern day Australia is anything other than a grand - and successful - outpost of
  Euro-colonialism and, more specifically Anglo-Celt British colonialism. It's a fact of life like the Euro-colonization of the Americas etc. If it was an outpost of, let's say, Iranian or Zimbabwean colonialism would so many people still be so desperately trying to get into Australia by any means necessary, legal or otherwise? It's doubtful. Thank the Gods for Euro-colonialism!

  Douglas Pearce

  Mean, Successful, Australia

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• In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Men, Gangsters, Translate

  Source: collider.com

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• [On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

  Mark Twain

  Jugs, Milk, Language

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• How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Latin, Inspiration

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• I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.

  Ben van Berkel

  Expression, Tongue, Shows

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• Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Character, Design, Avant Garde

  Source: thequietus.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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• Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour.

  Elvis Costello

  Expression, Three, Letters

  Song: Man Out Of Time

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• In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.

  Richard Lindzen

  Europe, Directors, Research

  "Climate of Fear". www.wsj.com. April 12, 2006.

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• What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Men, Scotch, Race

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• If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

  John Green

  Mom, Guy, Secret

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.77, Penguin

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• Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dams, Cheese, Evolution

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

  Michael Caine

  Hate, Two, People

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• I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

  Pete Townshend

  Paris, Rolling, Records

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• He took a bite, swallowed. "God. If asparagus tasted like that all the time, I'd be vegetarian, too." Some people in a lacquered wooden boat approached us on the canal below. One of them, a woman with curly blond hair, maybe thirty, drank from a beer then raised her glass towards us and shouted something. "We don't speak Dutch," Gus shouted back. One of the others shouted a translation: "The beautiful couple is beautiful.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Couple, Beer

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• Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

  John Green

  Language, Throat, Ailments

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch.

  John Green

  Real, Drinking, People

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.216, Penguin

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• We're more familiar with what economists call an English auction - prices start low and rise as people bid. However, there is also the Dutch auction, where prices start high and go lower until somebody bites. Movies are sold to the audience via a very slow Dutch auction, where each phase between price drops can last weeks or months.

  Nathan Myhrvold

  People, Auctions, Phases

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• Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips.

  Alice Hoffman

  Sweet, Garden, May

  Alice Hoffman (2001). “The River King”, p.202, Penguin Group

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• Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.

  Susanna Clarke

  Yorkshire, Strange, Native

  Susanna Clarke (2009). “Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell”, p.698, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Sir," returned Mrs. Sparsit, " I cannot say that i have heard him precisely snore, and therefore must not make that statement. But on winter evenings, when he has fallen asleep at his table, I have heard him, what I should prefer to describe as partially choke. I have heard him on such occasions produce sounds of a nature similar to what may be heard in dutch clocks. Not," said Mrs. Sparsit, with a lofty sense of giving strict evidence, " That I would convey any imputation on his moral character. Far from it.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Winter, Giving

  Charles Dickens “Hard Times”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle.

  Gayle Forman

  Running, Violent, Worst

  Gayle Forman (2013). “Just One Day”, p.25, Penguin

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