Europe Quotes - Page 8

• If Donald Trump shows signs of backing out of Europe, the Russians might be willing to stay out of his confrontation with Iran. If he follows Obama's program in Europe, things might be different.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Iran, Different, Might

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• My guess is that Trump will begin withdrawing troops from Europe at a slow pace. He will demand a renovation of the Iran Accord and get nowhere with this. There might be more US sanctions on Iran. However, the Iranians will not compromise with Trump, and barring a naval confrontation in the Persian Gulf, it will be US businesses that will suffer and Trump's frustration level that will go up.

  Lawrence Davidson

  Frustration, Iran, Suffering

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• There seems to be a passive alliance between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump and that's unprecedented in its form and dangerous in its content, because Russia is our most dangerous geopolitical opponent because of the desires that they have in the Middle East and because of their desire to break up Europe. And in the United States, we spent a lot of blood and a lot of treasure trying to keep Europe intact and democratic, and trying to keep the Middle East from being only influenced by people who are massive fans of [Syrian President] Assad and massive fans of the Iranians.

  Van Jones

  Russia, Blood, People

  Source: pen.org

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• When we talk about Orientalist painting, we're talking about painting generally from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century, and some would say even into the twentieth, that allows Europe to look at Africa, Asia Minor, or East Asia in a way that's revelatory but also as a place in which you can empty yourself out. A place in which there is no place. It's an emptiness and a location at once.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Talking, East, Looks

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• Feudal Europe is over, but it found its way into film culture. It found its way into postmodern painting culture, and we're all here talking about it today. It still lives. I don't believe in ghosts, but these are contemporary ghosts.

  Kehinde Wiley

  Believe, Talking, Culture

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• The incubator for terrorism, after the Middle East, is Europe, partly because of proximity, partly because of the existence of large Muslim communities there.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Community, Middle East, Terrorism

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• In every single case, the truth is that the atmosphere created by the Iraq invasion and the staggeringly mismanaged occupation has incited terrorists to act. It's been a contributing factor. It's unavoidable throughout Europe - in Spain, in Germany, in Britain. The truth is that we need long-term American policy to shift in order to really soak up and get rid of these sources of terrorism that threaten our Western allies.

  Sidney Blumenthal

  Order, Iraq, Long

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I became an anti-fascist, and the more I saw what was happening to the peoples of Europe, the Jews, the more I saw the deep cruelty and inhumanity of that system and its philosophy of white supremacy.

  Harry Belafonte

  Philosophy, White, Saws

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• For fifty years, we heard NATO is necessary to save Western Europe from the Russian hordes, you know the slave state, stuff I was taking about. In 1990-91, no Russian hordes. Okay, what happens? Well there are actually visions of the future system that were presented. One was [Mikhail] Gorbachev. He called for a Eurasian security system, with no military blocs. He called it a Common European Home. No military blocs, no Warsaw Pact. Just an integrated security system with no conflicts.Now the other vision was presented by George Bush, this is the "statesman".

  Noam Chomsky

  Military, Home, Security Systems

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• We live in an age of de-democratization. The number of democracies in the world has been going backwards since 2005, and even many existing democracies including in Europe have been becoming less democratic.

  David Frum

  Numbers, Democracy, Age

  "David Frum: 'How Donald Trump Could Build An Autocracy In The U.S.'". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. January 31, 2017.

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• The world is a total mess. Take a look at what's happening with Aleppo. Take a look what's happening in Mosul. Take a look what's going on in the Middle East. And people are fleeing and they're going into Europe and all over the place. The world is a mess.

  Donald Trump

  People, Middle East, Fleeing

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Europe needs an engine, and the Franco-German motor has provided that when the two nations have converged on important topics during critical periods. But that partnership shouldn't be a directorate for other EU members.

  Francois Hollande

  Two Nations, Important, Needs

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• France is the bridge between northern Europe and southern Europe. I refuse any division. If Europe has been reunified, it's not for it to then fall into egotism or 'each for one's own'. Our duty is to set common rules around the principles of responsibility and solidarity.

  Francois Hollande

  Fall, Responsibility, Bridges

  "Hollande fires warning shot at Merkel over austerity on eve of EU summit" by Angelique Chrisafis and Ian Traynor, www.theguardian.com. October 17, 2012.

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• The British have been particularly shy about the issues of financial regulation, and attentive only to the interests of the City - hence their reluctance to see the introduction of a tax on financial transactions and tax harmonisation in Europe.

  Francois Hollande

  Cities, Issues, Shy

  "New French leader fires a broadside at Britain: You only care about the City of London, says President Hollande". www.dailymail.co.uk. May 8, 2012.

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• We find ourselves in a difficult situation in Europe. There's a crisis, weak growth, unemployment... my duty is to ensure that by the end of my mandate France is in a better state than it was at the beginning.

  Francois Hollande

  Difficult Situations, Growth, Unemployment

  "François Hollande's popularity plummets four months after election" by Kim Willsher, www.theguardian.com. September 23, 2012.

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• Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Men, Metaphysical

  Aldous Huxley (1956). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Jobs, Attitude

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• We're developing things, but I don't know what we'll go with for the show, so I don't like to talk about it.

  Marc Jacobs

  Shows, Knows, Developing

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• I like spending time at home. In Paris, people drop by and have a bite to eat, or they drop by and watch Friends on TV. I take my dog to the office there, and I walk to work sometimes.

  Marc Jacobs

  Dog, Home, Paris

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• I remember walking the dog one day, I saw a car full of teenage girls, and one of them rolled down the window and yelled, 'Marc Jacobs!' in a French accent.

  Marc Jacobs

  Girl, Dog, Teenage

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• It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

  Henry James

  Responsibility, Fighting, Fate

  Henry James (2013). “Daisy Miller and An International Episode”, p.22, OUP Oxford

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• I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.

  Quincy Jones

  Journey, Years, Three

  "Grammy Legend Award". The Academy of Achievement interview, www.achievement.org. October 28, 2000.

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• Coming from the U.S., you tend to look at one homogeneous market with 350 million people. But in Europe, every country has its own customs and laws.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Country, Law, People

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• A lot of names in America and Europe have their roots in Latin and Greek words. A lot of them go back to archetypes and their stories.

  Maynard James Keenan

  Latin, Names, Roots

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• I know of no more important subject to the peace of Europe and the world than the reasonable reduction of armaments, especially in Europe, and of naval armaments throughout the world.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Navy, Important, World

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