Europe Quotes - Page 40

• 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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• The descendants of European immigrants do not govern the United States of America today. The foreign and domestic policies of the country are made by the Jews and their lackeys.

  Julius Streicher

  Country, America, United States

  Der Stürmer newspaper, 1944.

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• We need to remind our core supporters that we have not forgotten their concern with the way our democracy is being replaced by European bureaucracy in so many areas.

  John Redwood

  Democracy, Needs, Way

  "Why the EU debate still matters" by John Redwood, www.brugesgroup.com.

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• That ere long, now that curiosity has been so much excited on this subject, some human remains will be detected in the older alluvium of European valleys, I confidently expect.

  Charles Lyell

  Long, Curiosity, Valleys

  Charles Lyell (2005). “The Geological Evidence of Man”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I was just going more for what I've always been influenced by, European music.

  Kip Winger

  Music

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• I am closer to a European viewpoint of the world than an American one. My ethics and ideals are based on European concepts.

  Bianca Jagger

  Viewpoints, World, Ethics

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• In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

  Dexter Gordon

  Jazz, Influence

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• So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true.

  Wim Wenders

  Somewhere Else, Bored, Division

  "'The culture of independent film criticism has gone down the drain'". Interview with Richard Phillips, www.wsws.org. January 10, 2000.

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• The European model is in danger if we obliterate the principle of personal responsibility.

  Jacques Delors

  Responsibility, Principles, Danger

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• I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Intellectual, Movement, Allegiance

  "An exclusive interview with J M Coetzee". Interview with David Attwell, www.dn.se. December 8, 2003.

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• I have to make this love affair believable enough. It's very European.

  Chita Rivera

  Affair, Enough, Believable

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• The average European does not seem to feel free until he succeeds in enslaving and oppressing others.

  Bernard Berenson

  Average, Doe, Succeed

  Bernard Berenson (1952). “Rumour and Reflection: 1941:1944”

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• On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.

  Nathan Deal

  Country, Israel, Japan

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• Most metaphysical words in Hopi are verbs, not nouns as in European languages.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Verbs, Nouns, Language

  Benjamin Lee Whorf, John Bissell Carroll (1964). “Language, Thought, and Reality: Selected Writings of Benjamin Lee Whorf”, p.61, MIT Press

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• I was always attracted by the European way of life, but I am deeply Swedish.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Way, Swedish

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• We should force European governments to choose between Paris and Washington.

  Richard Perle

  Government, Paris, Should

  David Frum, Richard Norman Perle (2004). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, Ballantine Books

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• In some European theaters, it's still not uncommon to have a late start and three LONG intermissions, because people actually eat and drink and converse during the intermissions.

  Joe Bob Briggs

  Long, People, Three

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• If we get the capabilities, NATO, along with the European Union, can do amazing things.

  George Robertson, Baron Robertson of Port Ellen

  Unions, Capability, Nato

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• We don't want protectionism at the heart of the European Union.

  Guy Verhofstadt

  Heart, Unions, Want

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• The views of the European Union are fully reflected in this text, particularly the key objective of the EU, namely vigorously to address the disarmament of Iraq and to do so within the framework of the UN Security Council.

  Javier Solana

  Iraq, Keys, Views

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• China is not only formidable, it is also aggressively building its own economic infrastructure. Just a few years from now, China will rival the U.S. and the European Union in global market power. It already has surpassed us in population.

  Jo Ann Emerson

  Years, Population, Unions

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• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Jobs, Doors, Trying

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.

  Marek Belka

  Believe, Matter, Germany

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