Sweden Quotes - Page 3

• I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

  John Newcombe

  Eight, Eric, World

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• You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Nerd, Abba, Nerdy

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• Sweden is the home of my ancestors, and I have reserved a special place in my heart for Sweden.

  Carl David Anderson

  Home, Heart, Special

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• Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles

  Dave Grohl

  Rocks, Chicago, Albums

  "Q&A: Dave Grohl on vinyl, Record Store Day". Interview with Patrick Ryan, www.usatoday.com. April 15, 2015.

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• It was important that we kept moving the puck and moving forward as a team. It is good that we practiced today. The rivalry we have against Sweden is very intense. We have had some very physical games against Sweden and we are looking forward to them. We know what to expect.

  Caroline Ouellette

  Team, Moving, Hockey

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• Every time I go to Europe, I remember that James Dean never saw Europe, but yet I see his face everywhere. There's James Dean, Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe - windows of the Champs Elysees, discos in the south of Spain, restaurants in Sweden, t-shirts in Moscow. My life was confused and disoriented for years by his passing. My sense of destiny destroyed - the great films he would have directed, the great performances he would have given, the great humanitarian he would have become, and yet, he's the greatest actor and star I have ever known.

  Dennis Hopper

  Stars, Confused, Destiny

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• Eating in Sweden is really just a series of heartbreaks.

  Bill Bryson

  Eating, Series

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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• You were in Sweden?" Boomer asked. "No," I said. "The trip got called off at the last minute. Because of political the unrest" "In Sweden?" Priya seemed skeptical. "Yeah-isn't it strange how the Times isn't covering it? Half the country's on strike because of that thing the crown prince said about Pippi Longstocking Which means no meatballs for Christmas, if you know what I mean." "That's so sad!" Boomer said.

  David Levithan

  Country, Mean, Political

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• I love Sweden. The entire world should be like Sweden. They all like to drink and get naked, and the women are hot. I can't think of a better nation on the planet.

  Drew Curtis

  Thinking, Hot, Naked

  "An Interview With Fark’s Drew Curtis". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. March 6, 2012.

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• The polite of every country seem to have but one character. A gentleman of Sweden differs but little, except in trifles, from one of any other country. It is among the vulgar we are to find those distinctions which characterize a people.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Country, Character, People

  Oliver Goldsmith (1834). “An inquiry into the present state of polite learning. The Bee. History of Cyrillo Padovano. Life of Dr. Parnell. Life of Lord Bolingbroke. Prefaces and introductions”, p.77

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

  Theodore Bikel

  Country, Art, Pride

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• I'd say that Holland, Sweden, and Denmark are all better countries politically than the United States. The average person is far better off in one of those countries than he is in the United States and poverty of the sort that we have is absolutely unknown in Northern Europe.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Average, Europe

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Mother, Father

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• I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.

  Alexander Skarsgard

  Clothes

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• I did a long concert tour in England and Denmark and Sweden, and I also sang for the Soviet people, one of the finest musical audiences in the world.

  Paul Robeson

  Long, People, Musical

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). “Paul Robeson speaks: writings, speeches, interviews, 1918-1974”, Brunner-Routledge

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• Here's the thing: the unit of reverence in Europe is the family, which is why a child born today of unmarried parents in Sweden has a better chance of growing up in a house with both of his parents than a child born to a married couple in America. Here we revere the couple, there they revere the family.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Children, Growing Up, Couple

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• I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.

  David Nicholls

  Streets

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• If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.

  Steven Morrissey

  Travel, Identity, Germany

  "Morrissey vs NME: Mozgate Part II" by Dave Simpson, www.theguardian.com. November 28, 2007.

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• There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.

  Tinie Tempah

  Girl, Would Be, Want

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• After the first glass of vodka you can accept just about anything of life even your own mysteriousness you think it is nice that a box of matches is purple and brown and is called La Petite and comes from Sweden for they are words that you know and that is all you know words not their feelings or what they mean and you write because you know them not because you understand them because you don't you are stupid and lazy and will never be great but you do what you know because what else is there?

  Frank O'Hara

  Nice, Stupid, Writing

  Frank O'Hara (1995). “The Collected Poems of Frank O'Hara”, p.382, Univ of California Press

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• I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.

  Izabella Scorupco

  Eight, Ties, Born

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• In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.

  Noomi Rapace

  Perfect, Feelings, Surface

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• Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.

  Henning Mankell

  People, I Smile, Smile More

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• We had a poster of the Davis Cup in 1986. It was in Prague, the Czech Republic against Sweden, and we went to watch, so I got the poster. You couldn't get all the posters. You were lucky if you got one.

  Martina Hingis

  Sports, Czech Republic, Prague

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• You've got some very powerful countries: Poland, the United Kingdom, Sweden and others who have a genuine desire to see the euro zone straighten itself out. It's good for all of us, whether you're in the euro zone or not, to make sure that it doesn't lead to a fracturing.

  Nick Clegg

  Country, Powerful, Desire

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