Sweden Quotes - Page 5

• 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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• It's frustrating when you come over here [Hollywood], especially from a position that I was in, in Sweden, where most people know who you are, but then you come here.

  Joel Kinnaman

  People, Hollywood, Frustrating

  Source: collider.com

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• When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.

  Marina Abramovic

  Cameras, Video, Firsts

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• If Francoise Sagan hadn't written a book called A Chateau in Sweden, I would certainly write a short story called A Chateau in Puerto Rico. And I may yet.

  Truman Capote

  Book, Writing, Stories

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

  Malin Akerman

  Girl, Pride, Canada

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Thank God for the tsunami, and thank God that two thousand dead Swedes are fertilizing the ground over there [in Asia]. How many of these two thousand, do you suppose, were fags and dykes? This is how the Lord deals with His enemies. And the Lord has got some enemies. And Sweden heads the list. You filthy Swedes. You filthy Swedes!

  Fred Phelps

  Two, Enemy, Thank God

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• People in Sweden talk a lot about the weather - how much we hate it. But Finns get more depressed.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Hate, Weather, People

  "Sweden’s Population: 9 Million. Camilla Lackberg’s Swedish Book Sales: 3 Million. Camilla Who?". Interview with Jesse Kornbluth, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 12, 2010.

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• In Sweden, water fluoridation, to my knowledge, is no longer advocated by anybody. In Sweden, the emphasis nowadays is to keep the environment as clean as possible with regard to pharmacologically active and, thus, potentially toxic substances.

  Arvid Carlsson

  Water, Toxic, Substance

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• Sweden rejected fluoridation in the 1970s, and in this excellent book these three scientists have confirmed the wisdom of that decision. Our children have not suffered greater tooth decay, as World Health Organization figures attest, and in turn our citizens have not borne the other hazards fluoride may cause

  Arvid Carlsson

  Children, Book, Organization

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• Marriage is not common in Sweden.

  Eva Gabrielsson

  Common

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• When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.

  Teemu Selanne

  Children, Kids, Hockey

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• The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden.

  Harri Holkeri

  Country, Sea, Water Of Life

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• Malmo, with its 280,000 residents, is Sweden's third-largest city. To see a physician, a patient must go to one of two local clinics before they can see a specialist. The clinics have security guards to keep patients from getting unruly as they wait hours to see a doctor. The guards also prevent new patients from entering the clinic when the waiting room is considered full. Uppsala, a city with 200,000 people, has only one specialist in mammography. Sweden's National Cancer Foundation reports that in a few years most Swedish women will not have access to mammography.

  Walter E. Williams

  Cancer, Doctors, Waiting Rooms

  Walter E. Williams (2015). “American Contempt for Liberty”, p.273, Hoover Institution Press

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• Ours is the most wasteful nation on Earth. We waste more energy than we import. With about the same standard of living, we use twice as much energy per person as do other countries like Germany, Japan, and Sweden.

  Jimmy Carter

  Country, Japan, Alternatives

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• American suffragist, speech "Is Woman Suffrage Progressing?" at Stockholm, Sweden Radicalism is a label that is always applied to people who are endeavoring to get freedom.

  Marcus Garvey

  People, Progress, Labels

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• We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.

  Jack Charlton

  Likes, Norway, Belgium

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• Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic... being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.

  Alan Coren

  Believe, Way, Saws

  "The Sanity Inspector". Book by Alan Coren, 1974.

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• When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.

  Dolph Lundgren

  School, Kids, Unions

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• First the movie, the actual playing of the role and trying to deliver what everybody wanted. Then, when the film came out, there was instant fame. I was just a kid from Sweden, I didn't know what was going on.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Trying, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• I don't know why you're talking about Sweden. They're the neutral one. They don't have an army.

  George W. Bush

  Army, Talking, Knows

  "Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush" by Ron Suskind, www.nytimes.com. October 17, 2004.

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• I took a hasty trip to Germany, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands, and England to talk to the officials of each Government about their pension provisions, and to talk to the responsible ministers in each country about the political "whys" of their legislation.

  Judy LaMarsh

  Country, Government, Political

  Judy LaMarsh (1969). “Memoirs of a Bird in a Gilded Cage”, Toronto ; Montreal : McClelland and Stewart

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• Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake.

  Pentti Linkola

  Cutting, Winter, White

  "Can Life Prevail?". Book by Pentti Linkola, 2004.

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• Some stories I write in Swedish, some in English. Short stories I've almost exclusively written in English lately, mostly because there's such a small market for them in Sweden and it doesn't really pay either. So, the translation goes both ways. What also factors in is that I have a different voice in English, which means that a straight translation wouldn't be the same as if I'd written it in English originally.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Writing, Mean, Voice

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• I flew over all my masks from Sweden, including my first that I bought when I was 15. That was a little while ago so the masks looked a little different. I painted it myself, but actually the way it looks now is not the look it had when I played. I repainted it after I was done using it.

  Henrik Lundqvist

  Different, Looks, Done

  Source: wwd.com

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