Dutch Quotes - Page 4

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I first saw a White Dutch person dressed up as Black Pete, I was both sickened and shocked. It's hard to stand next to someone who views your skin color and hair as a costume. As a filmmaker, whenever I get that feeling, I want to explore what motivates people to engage in such offensive behavior and enlighten folks about its origins.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Color, White, Hair

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Eight, Three

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2, ABC’s RED WIDOW, the Status of AKA JESSICA JONES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Judging, Chinese, Goes On

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.

  Roel Reine

  School, Museums, Sea

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• I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice.

  Louis van Gaal

  Team, Winning, World

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• Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion.

  Mary Virginia Terhune

  Christmas, Baby, Believe

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• LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.

  Richard Thaler

  Russia, Class, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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• After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Military, Real, Renaissance

  Source: collider.com

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• The Portuguese, Dutch and English have been for a long time year after year, shipping home the treasures of India in their big vessels. We Germans have been all along been left to watch it. Germany would do likewise, but hers would be treasures of spiritual knowledge.

  Heinrich Heine

  Spiritual, Home, Years

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• [European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

  George Thorogood

  Differences, Switzerland, Different

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Freedom, Garden, May

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Football, Moving, Simple

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• Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

  John Oliver

  Doubt, Language, Economics

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• Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

  Craig Ferguson

  Oil, World, Helping

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• You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Germany, Knows, Bits

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• The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Song, Mistake, Play

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• There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.

  Rem Koolhaas

  Architecture

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• Bolkenstein, a Minister, was speaking on the Dutch programme from London, and he said that they ought to make a collection of diaries and letters after the war. Of course, they all made a rush at my diary immediately. Just imagine how interesting it would be if I were to publish a romance of the "Secret Annexe." The title alone would be enough to make people think it was a detective story.

  Anne Frank

  War, Thinking, People

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings.

  Mason Cooley

  Garden, Snakes, Paradise

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• To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch

  Ruud Gullit

  Play, Holland

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• Dutch painting: daily life is enough.

  Mason Cooley

  Painting, Daily Life, Life Is

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