Amsterdam Quotes

• Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.

  John Green

  Freedom, Thinking, Cities

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.106, Penguin UK

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• Amsterdam is like the rings of a tree: It gets older as you get closer to the center.

  John Green

  Tree, Rings

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.92, Penguin

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• I love Amsterdam. The city is vibrant and alive. It's fresh and so open. It's definitely one of my favorite places.

  Stefon Harris

  Cities, Favorite Places, Alive

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• Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam

  Kristin Cashore

  Fire, Location

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• My experience in Amsterdam is that cyclists ride where the hell they like and aim in a state of rage at all pedestrians while ringing their bell loudly, the concept of avoiding people being foreign to them.

  Terry Pratchett

  Travel, People, Bells

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• Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing the tourist.

  Julie Burchill

  Bridges, Tourists, Bitter

  "Chill factors" by Julie Burchill, www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• ...And in freedom, most people find sin.

  John Green

  Freedom, People, Sin

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.93, Penguin

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• Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Cities, Venice, Mind

  James Weldon Johnson, Sondra K. Wilson (1995). “The Selected Writings of James Weldon Johnson: Social, political, and literary essays”, p.331, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• In Amsterdam the water is the mistress and the land the vassal. throughout the city there are as many canals and drawbridges as bracelets on a Gypsy's bronzed arms.

  Felix Marti-Ibanez

  Land, Cities, Water

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• But words are water in Amsterdam, they flood your ears and set the rot, and the church's east corner is crowded.

  Jessie Burton

  Water, Church, East

  Jessie Burton (2014). “The Miniaturist”, p.8, Pan Macmillan

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• In Amsterdam, the river and canals have been central to city life for the last four centuries.

  Janet Echelman

  Cities, Rivers, Four

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• I dropped my pants in a tattoo parlor in Amsterdam. I woke up in a waterbed with this funky-looking dragon with a blue tongue on my hip. I realized I made a mistake, so a few months later I got a cross to cover it. When my pants hang low, it looks like I'm wearing a dagger!

  Angelina Jolie

  Tattoo, Mistake, Blue

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• I was discovered in Paris when I was there on a school trip at the age of 13. After that, my mom came in contact with Elite Amsterdam; then I started modeling.

  Maud Welzen

  Mom, School, Paris

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• Amsterdam is not Holland. It is a city that attracts people from all over Holland. And lots of international tourists and party people.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Party, Cities, People

  Source: thequietus.com

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• In a city like London, the fact that cultures live together and cross-fertilize is a beautiful and natural thing. The many cultures in Amsterdam contribute to the city's high level of craziness - something which every interesting city should offer. But sometimes immigrants can live in parallel worlds which can exclude others and not be very attractive.

  Charles Landry

  Beautiful, Cities, Interesting

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I was told David Letterman and Kaufman had heart attacks on the same day: David Letterman's heart attack was at a hospital in NYC. Kaufman's heart attack was at the red light district in Amsterdam, Holland. I think Kaufman had more fun.
  You're a great artist. I just love the way you painted my portrait.

  Howard Stern

  Fun, Heart, Thinking

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• Ireland is also quite nice. So is Amsterdam.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  Nice, Ireland

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• My dream holiday would be a) a ticket to Amsterdam b) immunity from
  prosecution and c) a baseball bat.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baseball, Dream, Holiday

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• And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.

  Julie Burchill

  Pigs, Doors, Dinner

  "Chill factors". www.theguardian.com. January 3, 2004.

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• But once we got on the air, everybody except Morey Amsterdam pretty much stuck to the script.

  Dick Van Dyke

  Air, Scripts, Stuck

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• People always get used to beauty, though.” “I haven’t gotten used to you just yet,” he answered, smiling. I felt myself blushing. “Thank you for coming to Amsterdam,” he said. “Thank you for letting me hijack your wish,” I said. “Thank you for wearing that dress which is like whoa

  John Green

  People, Wish, Dresses

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• Amsterdam must have more than a million people. But the only area where jazz is really profitable and successful in an economic sense is in Japan. That's because they haven't been exposed enough.

  Norman Granz

  Successful, Japan, People

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• In Europe, I always have fun bike riding in Amsterdam.

  Ezra Koenig

  Fun, Europe, Riding

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

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• Then came the second Amsterdam discovery, although the principle was known elsewhere. Bank deposits...did not need to be left idly in the bank. They could be lent. The bank then got interest. The borrower then had a deposit that he could spend. But the original deposit still stood to the credit of the original depositor. That too could be spent. Money, spendable money, had been created. Let no one rub his or her eyes. It's still being done-every day. The creation of money by a bank is as simple as this, so simple, I've often said, that the mind is slightly repelled.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Eye, Simple, Discovery

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• The Annex is an ideal place to hide in. It may be damp and lopsided, but there's probably not a more comfortable hiding place in all of Amsterdam. No, in all of Holland.

  Anne Frank

  May, Hiding, Holland

  Anne Frank (2010). “The Diary of a Young Girl”, p.26, Anchor

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