Sweden Quotes - Page 6

• I grew up in a very bohemian environment in southern Sweden, so I was always, always, always in black jeans.

  Johan Lindeberg

  Jeans, Southern, Black

  "Best New Designers: Meet Johan Lindeberg (Again)". Interview with Andrew Richdale, www.gq.com. April 12, 2012.

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• Children born of married parents in America face a higher risk of seeing them break up than children born of unmarried parents in Sweden.

  Arlie Russell Hochschild

  Children, America, Parent

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• Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Different Experiences, Comedy, Made

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.

  Erland Josephson

  Real, Accepted, Profession

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• Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.

  Bill Skarsgard

  Country, Acting, Sound

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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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• We know that the abilities of European Union member states are not infinite. As such, it makes little sense for us to criticize each other.All of us accepted Sweden's decision to introduce border controls too. And that is a country that was for decades the most open to immigration.

  Wolfgang Schauble

  Country, Decision, Immigration

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I don't think there's any country that has equal pay, not even Sweden or Iceland.

  Gloria Steinem

  Country, Thinking, Equal Pay

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Football is much harder if you don't have the ball.

  Sven-Goran Eriksson

  Football, Balls, Harder

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• I've got fans and letters from Israel, France Germany, Sweden, London, Africa. They all saying pretty much the same thing, 'Yo, we love you, we need you, put some more music out, please!'

  DMX

  Love You, Israel, Fans

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• I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.

  Britt Ekland

  Home, Los Angeles, Britain

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• I'm the minority in my house sometimes. My wife is Swedish, and we go to Sweden and everyone is rattling off in Swedish. It's like, 'OK, I can just read a book.'

  Will Ferrell

  Book, Wife, House

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• Tennis legend Bjorn Borg appeared in a Swedish TV ad urging Swedes to have more sex to solve the country's falling birth rate. America can help. This is a perfect opportunity to name Jesse Jackson ambassador to Sweden.

  Argus Hamilton

  Country, Sex, Fall

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• I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.

  Eliot Paulina Sumner

  Sexy, Language, Speak

  "The Self-Aware Solo Artist". Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2015.

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• I am an immigrant in a sense. What happened was that my father was stationed in New York when my mother became pregnant, and she said, "I've got to go to Sweden so this child can be born there, because you don't have any idea where you're going to be transferred next."

  Claes Oldenburg

  Mother, New York, Children

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• How can I know who's PM or in government in Sweden? It's been 40 years since I moved abroad! Oh!

  Anita Ekberg

  Government, Years, Pms

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

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• I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.

  George Blagden

  Horse, Historical, Want

  Source: collider.com

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• What is a career, actually? Nobody can destroy my career. Only I can destroy my career, if I am a bad conductor. I've gone to lesser known orchestras in Scotland and Sweden, Detroit, but I have enjoyed the places I've been, and had success. I like the close community relations, and to solve problems.

  Neeme Jarvi

  Careers, Scotland, Community

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• We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

  Dick Morris

  Government, People, Priorities

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