Foreigners Quotes - Page 12

• [for indicted foreigners] simple expulsion is not enough (...) they must be arrested immediately, tried using a fast-track procedure, and then expelled to serve their sentences in the countries they came from, (...) it isn't right that foreign criminals are being housed in our [Italian] jails.

  Franco Frattini

  Country, Italian, Simple

  Il Giornale Interview, April 28, 2008.

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• Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.

  Lee Child

  Government, Printing, Currency

  Lee Child (2006). “Killing Floor: A Jack Reacher Novel”, p.285, Penguin

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• I was not happy as a traveller, I did not feel really at home anywhere I went, even in Spain which was the most I felt at home, I still was a foreigner. I missed Australia, and I can't tell why. It's just this is what I grew up with and this is the things I wanted to make meaning of in my life.

  Richard Meale

  Home, Australia, Spain

  "The Music Show" with Andrew Ford, www.abc.net.au. August 24, 2002.

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• I think a lot of people are trying to scare immigrants. But in reality, they have nothing to fear. You know, people who behave need not worry. Foreigners in France who hold a job, who respect our laws, our codes, have absolutely nothing to worry about.

  Marine Le Pen

  Jobs, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We died like aunts of pets or foreigners.

  Randall Jarrell

  Death, Aunt, Pet

  Randall Jarrell (1956). “Selected Poems”

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• That's the great advantage of being a foreigner: you're not paying your dues, but you are getting all the benefits.

  Pico Iyer

  Benefits, Advantage, Dues

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• When I was in college I thought of making up a fictive artist and giving him a name and a body of work. Eventually I came around to the idea of using my own name, which had this strange distancing effect, similar to using a found object. Being a Turk was quite interesting because in a sense it was like being a foreigner.

  Gavin Turk

  Artist, College, Found Objects

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• ... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Self, Denial, Hardship

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• We should teach the foreigners and colonialists that Somalia cannot be led by other people and that the traitors who fled the country will never lead Somalia.

  Siad Barre

  Country, People, Traitor

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• The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Country, People, Generations

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin, William Duane (1834). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.423

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• From the beginning [of the film The Darkest Hour], [aliens] it's a metaphor for the foreigners and from the beginning of the movie, American boys feel themselves like aliens here or they feel like Russians are aliens. There's misunderstanding or miscommunication. Then when the real aliens appear, together they have to fight to survive.

  Timur Bekmambetov

  Real, Fighting, Boys

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• A child who had been introduced to misery in Saudi Arabia, a teenager who went to wage jihad against the Soviets in Afghanistan, a deeply devout Muslim who had graduated with honors in medicine, a man who had fed a stranger to wild dogs in Damascus, a zealot who had dosed three foreigners with smallpox and watched them die in agony, gave thanks to Allah for the blessings that had been bestowed upon him.

  Terry Hayes

  Dog, Children, Teenager

  Terry Hayes (2014). “I Am Pilgrim: A Thriller”, p.355, Simon and Schuster

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• The only reason I think I would marry a foreigner would be to have kids with weird accents.

  Chelsea Handler

  Kids, Thinking, Would Be

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• I think anyone who isn't investing in Nigeria is missing out. If you look at Nigeria today, literally all of the business class cabins are full of foreigners, because these guys see opportunity.

  Mo Abudu

  Opportunity, Thinking, Class

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• We South Vietnamese, we are very concerned about the ah, the fact that the communists are - were very shrewd in trying to take advantage of the American presence in South Vietnam to make the propaganda that they were the only one who fought for the independence of the country and against the, only foreigners, first the French and after that the Americans.

  Bui Diem

  Country, Independence, Trying

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• The Afghan "negotiation phase" immediately precedes the traditional Afghan "surrender phase." This entails the following: The defeated party surrenders and then comes out shooting. This is repeated several times. Finally, the vanquished party runs out of ammunition and is forced to surrender ' but seriously this time ' at which point the victors kill the foreigners and hug their fellow Afghans like long-lost brothers.

  Ann Coulter

  Running, Brother, Party

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• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Horse, Silly, Boys

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Ellen Carol DuBois (1992). “The Elizabeth Cady Stanton-Susan B. Anthony reader: correspondence, writings, speeches”, Northeastern Univ Pr

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• We are mortgaging ourselves to foreigners on a scale that would make George Washington cry. Every day - every single day - we borrow a billion dollars from foreigners to buy petroleum from abroad, often from countries that hate us. We are the beggars of the world, financing our lavish lifestyle by selling our family heirlooms and by enslaving our progeny with the need to service the debt.

  Ben Stein

  Country, Hate, Dollars

  Ben Stein (2010). “The Real Stars: In Today's America, Who Are the True Heroes?”, p.103, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Cutting, Age, Superstitions

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.66, Penguin

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• I love the Twins, ... I bleed the Twins. That's all I know. If I go anywhere else, I'd be a foreigner.

  Torii Hunter

  Twins, Knows, Ifs

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• Crowds stand around all day long and criticise that bridge, and find fault with it, and tell with unlimited frankness how it ought to have been planned, and how they would have built it had the city granted them the $14,000 it cost. It is really refreshing to hang around these and listen to them. A foreigner would come to the conclusion that all America was composed of inspired professional bridge builders.

  Mark Twain

  Bridges, Cities, America

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• All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sports, Dog, Travel

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• Even some of us who make movies underestimate their influence abroad. American movies sell American culture. Foreigners want to see American movies. But that's also why so many foreign governments and groups object to them.

  Irwin Winkler

  Government, Groups, Culture

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• Can't spell, can't spot fake Shakespeare, can't tell one wacky foreigner from another: it's increasingly obvious that Barbra is some deep sleeper planted by the Republicans to discredit the very concept of activist celebrities. Poor old Democrats, in thrall to her fundraising: people who need Barbra are the unluckiest people in the world.

  Mark Steyn

  Fundraising, People, Fake

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• I have experienced the intensity of patriotism as a submarine officer, the ambitions of a competitive businessman, and the intensity of political debate. I have been sorely tempted to launch a military attack on foreigners, and have felt the frustration of having to negotiate with allies or even former enemies to reach a consensus instead of taking more decisive unilateral action.

  Jimmy Carter

  Military, Ambition, Frustration

  Jimmy Carter (2014). “The Jimmy Carter Library”, p.429, Simon and Schuster

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