Rotterdam Quotes

• I like it [Rotterdam] much better than Amsterdam which is too much like a postcard. It's too cute for me. Rotterdam is more real, it's got a stomach.

  Nan Goldin

  Cute, Real, Amsterdam

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Book, Philosophical, Europe

  Edgar Allan Poe (2017). “The Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allan Poe (Illustrated Edition): Annabel Lee, Ligeia, The Sphinx, The Raven, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-tale Heart, Berenice, Murders in the Rue Morgue, The Philosophy of Composition, The Poetic Principle, Eureka…”, p.305, e-artnow

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• The great thing about Europe is that things have not been represented [as much]. If you open the door of a bar in Brooklyn in a film you know exactly who is the mobster, who is the nice guy, who is the drunk, who's the waitress, who's the lonely heart. If you push open the door to a bar in Antwerp or Lisbon or Rotterdam, people will talk five different languages. You don't know who's who. You don't know if that guy is a banker or a mobster.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Lonely, Nice, Heart

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I had my first museum showing of my slide show in Rotterdam, in 1983. I love Rotterdam. I love harbour cities in general.

  Nan Goldin

  Museums, Cities, Firsts

  Source: foggysapphires.wordpress.com

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• The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw, and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind.

  Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet

  War, Wind, Bombs

  Statement in 1942. "The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won". Book by Victor Davis Hanson, 2017.

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• Now that I have retired, and even though I wanted to play more, I can always look back and say that at least I won Wimbledon; also, winning the tournament in Rotterdam in 1995

  Richard Krajicek

  Winning, Play, Looks

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• If you've been to the city of Malmo in Sweden, or to Berlin or to Hamburg or to London or to Paris in the suburbs, or Rotterdam in my own country. You see many cities where there is a city within a city - where even today in the United Kingdom - I don't know if you're aware of that - there are even sharia courts active, whether it's rulings that the worth of a woman is half of that of a man.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Men, Cities

  Source: www.parlementairemonitor.nl

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• I am really looking forward to driving another of my father?s car at the show in Rotterdam.

  Nelson Piquet

  Father, Car, Looking Forward

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