Switzerland Quotes - Page 5

• I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Hollywood, France, Left

  "Brigitte Bardot fights plan for Hollywood biopic" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.

  Martina Hingis

  Years, Speak

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• That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.

  Martina Hingis

  Jealousy, Sports, Athlete

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• Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.

  Simon Hoggart

  Airports, Hoarding, Watches

  "Simon Hoggart's week: the ugly face of Swiss watches" by Simon Hoggart, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2013.

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• Norway or Switzerland are two marvelous countries, I very much admire, the most advanced countries in the world in fact with great qualities of life.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Country, Two, Quality

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• I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  Country, Norway, Influence

  "José Manuel Barroso: 'How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?'". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Desire, Vote, Politician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• James Joyce wrote the definitive work about Dublin while he was living in Switzerland. We're all where we come from. We all have our roots.

  John Guare

  Roots, Where We Come, Dublin

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.

  Baran Odar

  Thinking, Germany, Born

  Source: collider.com

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• [European audiences differ from American] they talk different. The ones in Holland speak Dutch. The ones in Switzerland speak Swiss. That's the only difference.

  George Thorogood

  Differences, Different, Dutch

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• The fact that refugees traveled through six other countries, like former Yugoslavia, Macedonia, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, France, Germany, Holland, is because they like our social benefits. They like our welfare state. They know which country to pick. They're not going to stay in Hungary or in Estonia. They come to Germany, to Holland. And people sense that those are not the real refugees. And our government has spent billions of euros on them, and the Dutch people know.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Real, Government

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.

  Alan M. Taylor

  Iceland, Gdp, Banking

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Kaz came to Switzerland where I was teaching to share with me [Heart Sutra] wondrous insight. There he and I worked on this new translation - with my part being to help render it into a verse form that would be good to chant. Since I have worked with many dying people over the years and often share the Heart Sutra with them, I found this new version that we created together to be so much more accessible to those who were facing death.

  Joan Halifax

  Teaching, Heart, Years

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• I'm not talking about Russia in my music. I've never been to Russia. I'm not talking about Africa, Switzerland, China. I'm talking about me being American and growing up in a crazy world and helping to reflect all different sides of life.

  Nas

  Growing Up, Crazy, Russia

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Despite the fact that I spend a lot of time in London, Switzerland and New York, Africa is the place I know and love best, and my heart will always lie here.

  Wilbur Smith

  New York, Lying, Heart

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• I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Want, Hearing

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• Jacob wrote that the true poet 'is like a man who is happy anywhere, in endless measure, if he is allowed to look at leaves and grass, to see the sun rise and set. The false poet travels abroad in strange countries and hopes to be uplifted by the mountains of Switzerland, the sky and sea of Italy. He comes to them and is dissatisfied. He is not as happy as the man who stays at home and sees the apple trees flower in spring, and hears the small birds singing among the branches

  Jacob Grimm

  Country, Spring, Flower

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• To do so, we are creating a Fairness for Switzerland Committee that will not only disseminate some of the facts, but also protect a relationship that is important to all of us in North America.

  Peter Munk

  Relationship, Creating, America

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• Hedge funds are investment pools that are relatively unconstrained in what they do. They are relatively unregulated (for now), charge very high fees, will not necessarily give you your money back when you want it, and will generally not tell you what they do. They are supposed to make money all the time, and when they fail at this, their investors redeem and go to someone else who has recently been making money. Every three or four years they deliver a one-in-a-hundred year flood. They are generally run for rich people in Geneva, Switzerland, by rich people in Greenwich, Connecticut.

  Cliff Asness

  Running, Years, People

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• Space, like Switzerland, should be neutral.

  Andy Rooney

  Space, Should

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• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  Fatos Nano

  Europe, Germany, Albania

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• Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.

  Chaim Weizmann

  Taken, Years, Students

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• He's an American, qualified to play for Wales because he has a Welsh grandmother, who was on the bench against Switzerland.

  Guy Mowbray

  Football, Grandmother, Play

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• I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.

  Parminder Nagra

  America, Germany, Madrid

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• I am convinced that when Nietzsche came to Switzerland and went insane, it was not because of venereal disease, though he did have this disease. Rather, it was because he understood that insanity was the only philosophic answer if the infinite-personal God does not exist.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Insanity, Insane, Doe

  Francis August Schaeffer (1976). “How should we then live?: the rise and decline of western thought and culture”, Good News Pub

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