Europe Quotes - Page 39

• In the sixties and seventies you could probably name all the great comics. It was still special.

  Marc Maron

  Names, Special, Stills

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• Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

  Joe Cocker

  Galloping

  "Interview: Joe Cocker lyric". AskMen Interview, www.askmen.com.

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• In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive.

  Barack Obama

  America, Appreciate, Challenges

  Barack Obama's Remarks at Strasbourg Town Hall, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 3, 2009.

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• At least since the first petals of the counterculture bloomed across Europe and the United States in the 1960s, it has been fashionable to affirm that all religions are beautiful and all are true...This is a lovely sentiment but it is dangerous, disrespectful, and untrue.

  Stephen Prothero

  Beautiful, Lovely, Firsts

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• In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.

  Mark Twain

  Europe And America, Discovery, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Life On The Mississippi: Mark Twain's Collections”, p.6, 谷月社

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• In Europe you can be Sophia, you can be these older women who are considered very sexy.

  Sally Kirkland

  Sexy, Older Women, Sophia

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• When the white race broke out of Europe 500 years ago, it did many astounding things all over the globe. Inspired by a raging sky-god, the whites were able to pretend that their conquests were in order to bring the One God to everyone, particularly those with older and subtler religions.

  Gore Vidal

  Race, Order, Years

  Gore Vidal (1992). “The Decline and Fall of the American Empire”

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• We need to return to the cosmopolitanism of Alexandria of yore, and marry that with the tolerance and democracy of Europe today

  Ismail Serageldin

  Tolerance, Democracy, Needs

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• Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.

  Paul Smith

  Philosophy, America, Long

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• I have watched independent record stores evaporate all over America and Europe. That's why I go into as many as I can and buy records whenever possible. If we lose the independent record store, we lose big. Every time you buy your records at one of these places, it's a blow to the empire.

  Henry Rollins

  Independent, Blow, America

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• Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.

  Maximilian Schell

  Energy, Entertainment, Moral

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• Yet the whole preamble of the second authorization act for the Marshall Plan showed the direction Congress was ready to take about breaking down barriers within Europe.

  W. Averell Harriman

  Silence, Breaking Down, Preamble

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• Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

  Josiah Strong

  Aristocracy, Scientism

  Josiah Strong (1891). “Our Country, Its Possible Future and Its Present Crisis”

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• The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great!

  Queen Victoria

  Country, Men, Hands

  On Gladstone's last appointment as Prime Minister, in a letter to Lord Lansdowne, 12 August 1892

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• Margaret Thatcher, growing up in a bombed and battered Britain, derived a distrust which has grown with the years not just of Germany but of all continental Europe.

  Douglas Hurd

  Growing Up, Years, Germany

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• I had to go to Europe to tour and he died on the second day of the tour.

  Percy Heath

  Died

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• I was pretty much prepared because I was already playing in extremely good ways when I arrived from Europe because I played jazz four or five years before I arrived here.

  Miroslav Vitous

  Years, Four, Way

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• My name was on the list very early after these announcements were made through the newspapers in Europe.

  Claude Nicollier

  Names, Lists, Newspapers

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• If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy.

  Winston Churchill

  Country, People, Would Be

  "The White Goddess (A Grammar of Poetic Myth)" by, pitchfork.com. October 28, 2013.

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• I know they are going to be doing a box set in Europe of Danzig 5 and 6 and some other stuff.

  Glenn Danzig

  Stuff, Boxes, Knows

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• My revenge is fraternity! No more frontiers! The Rhine for everyone! Let us be the same Republic, let us be the United States of Europe, let us be the continental federation, let us be European liberty, let us be universal peace!

  Victor Hugo

  Country, Revenge, Liberty

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• In Europe the right wing is bogged down in Nationalism in most cases and still fighting so called Reds.

  Tom Metzger

  Fighting, Wings, Cases

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• I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.

  Georg Baselitz

  Father, Generations, Facts

  Interview with Pamela Kort, michaelwerner.com. April 2003.

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• I really think that women should be allowed to be more European, in this country.

  Sally Kirkland

  Country, Thinking, Should

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• Whereas European films have traditionally been able to go into adult relationships. I think there's a huge audience in America for those kinds of films.

  Philip Kaufman

  Thinking, America, Adults

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

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