Swedish Quotes - Page 2

• David Fincher is one of the best directors I know, so I'm really curious to see it. Really curious, and I want to hear Daniel have the Swedish accent.

  Michael Nyqvist

  Directors, Want, Curious

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• Whenever I travel anywhere, I'm constantly asked if I'm Swedish. It's the burden of most Norwegians. The Swedes have just got a better publicity agent, I think.

  Christopher Heyerdahl

  Thinking, Agents, Publicity

  "Q&A – Christopher Heyerdahl (The Swede)". Interview with Brian Fegter, www.amc.com.

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• The America to which these Swedish settlers came was a land that needed the hardy qualities they brought. It was not a land that was particularly softhearted towards newcomers, but everyone believed that each should have a fair chance regardless of his origin.

  Harry S. Truman

  Should Have, Land, America

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

  Susan Lucci

  Mother, Father, Italian

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• The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Way, Vikings, Accents

  "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.

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• If he'd been English or Swedish, he'd have walked the England job.

  Brian Clough

  Soccer, Football, Jobs

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• Who ever heard of Casablanca? I don't want to star opposite some unknown Swedish broad.

  George Raft

  Stars, Opposites, Want

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• Actually I liked that 'Let the Right One In,' that Swedish vampire movie.

  David Sedaris

  Vampire, Vampire Movie

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• I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country. In that way, I'm very Swedish - I don't dislike to be alone.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Country, Loneliness, Thinking

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”, p.170, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• My father is Swedish and my mother is French.

  Eva Green

  Mother, Father

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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, Sweden

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

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• The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

  Ann Patchett

  College, Matching, Sound

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• In the weeks that followed, we amazed ourselves. Our habits slid apart easily...And our very few intimacies were simply discontinued. Where did they go, those things we did? Were they recycled? Did some new couple in China do them? Were a Swedish man and woman foot to foot at this very moment?

  Miranda July

  Couple, Men, Feet

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• I thought of my mother as Queen Christina, cool and sad, eyes trained on some distant horizon. That was where she belonged, in furs and palaces of rare treasures, fireplaces large enough to roast a reindeer, ships of Swedish maple.

  Janet Fitch

  Mother, Queens, Eye

  Janet Fitch (2002). “White Oleander”, Large Print Press

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• Beef. Yes. Roast beef. It's the Swedish term for beef that is roasted.

  Daniel Handler

  Beef, Series Of Unfortunate Events, Term

  "A Series of Unfortunate Events". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• My dad was in the Swedish armed forces, he was always reading up on different weapons from the Americans and Soviets. When I was a kid, I was in bed looking at his books, reading about the Red Army. So I was very aware of it. I had an interest in military matters ever since.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Dad, Military, Book

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We did make use, from time to time, of candles, neckties, scarves, shoelaces, a little water-color paintbrush, her hairbrush, butter, whipped cream, strawberry jam, Johnson’s Baby Oil, my Swedish hand vibrator, a fascinating bead necklace she had, miscellaneous common household items, and every molecule of flesh that was exposed to air or could be located with strenuous search.

  Spider Robinson

  Baby, Air, Hands

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• I was this Swedish kid who came over here to study engineering, but I got into movies, and suddenly I'm in this 'Rocky' picture with Sylvester Stallone. And then the movie comes out, and it's a big hit, and I'm famous. Like, world famous. I wasn't thinking of ruling Hollywood; I was thinking of just trying to make it to the next day, trying to figure out what the hell happened.

  Dolph Lundgren

  Kids, Thinking, Engineering

  Source: www.bullz-eye.com

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• [about her offer of a Swedish massage] Alex: You're not Swedish. Brittany: Yeah, well, neither are you. So if I do it wrong you'll never know the difference.

  Simone Elkeles

  Differences, Alex, Massage

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• He rolled his eyes. "First, my Dad's Korean and my mom was Swedish. Second, I totally suck at math. I don't like cuckoo clocks or skiing or fancy chocolate either." I sputtered a laugh. "I think that's Swiss.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Mom, Dad, Eye

  Kelley Armstrong (2008). “The Summoning: Number 1 in series”, p.196, Hachette UK

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• I am of the international upper class, the Swedish petit bourgeoisie of Jewish extraction with poor language skills, a conveyor of a few expressions and faces, with some intonation that combines ancient human experience with timely coquetry.

  Erland Josephson

  Expression, Class, Skills

  "Erland Josephson obituary" by Ronald Bergan, www.theguardian.com. February 26, 2012.

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• I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup - nothing and nothing and then all at once - splat. I think I'm a little like that.

  Ingmar Bergman

  Thinking, Patriotism, Bottles

  Ingmar Bergman, Raphael Shargel (2007). “Ingmar Bergman: Interviews”

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• In more than 20 years of opening beers with guys, I have NEVER seen the Swedish Bikini Team show up. Almost always, the teams that show up in beer drinking situations consist of guys who have been playing league softball and smell like bus seats.

  Dave Barry

  Softball, Team, Drinking

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• Also, when on a campaign to convince a stranger that you aren't a few fries short of a Happy Meal, throwing around phrases like "tangentially Swedish" is not the best way to go.

  Maureen Johnson

  Meals, Campaigns, Phrases

  John Green, Lauren Myracle, Maureen Johnson (2009). “Let It Snow: Three Holiday Stories”, p.26, Penguin

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• If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!

  Marisol Nichols

  Ideas, Dutch, Speak

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

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