Belgrade Quotes

• Belgrade has kind of a Dublinesque, dear-dirty charm.

  Rian Johnson

  Dirty, Kind, Charm

  "Rian Johnson Builds a Better Time Machine" by Adams Sternberg, www.nytimes.com. September 26, 2012.

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• Belgrade is the ugliest city in the world in the most beautiful place in the world.

  Le Corbusier

  Beautiful, Cities, World

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• Far in foreign fields from Dunkirk to Belgrade
  Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Soldier, Fields

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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• I do no writing while I'm in Belgrade visiting my grandma.

  Tea Obreht

  Grandma, Writing, Visiting

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• I would think a lot more would be done to demand justice, to demand that officials in Belgrade have a serious investigation.

  William Walker

  Thinking, Justice, Would Be

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• I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

  Emir Kusturica

  New York, Airports, Years

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• I made a tape recording of a bridge collapsing and I wanted to play it suddenly and very loudly when people were walking over a big bridge in Belgrade. The council forbid it. Their imagination is tiny; mine is big. I want always to shake everything up.

  Marina Abramovic

  Bridges, Play, People

  "Interview: Marina Abramović" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

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• I don't think that if I had spent the time that I was in, say, Belgrade, writing about my time in Trieste, which is where I had just been, that would have been productive. I told myself: take extensive notes while you're there, do the research part of it, and then pray, pray, the muses will be available when the actual 'ready' happens.

  Jessa Crispin

  Writing, Thinking, Research

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Our government should do everything it can to ensure the successful prosecution of those responsible for the murders of U.S. citizens abroad. It should provide resources as needed, and it should make it clear to the authorities in Belgrade that inaction does have repercussions on bilateral relations.

  Tim Bishop

  Successful, Government, Doe

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• The fact is that there was a long war in which Serbia and its capital Belgrade were bombarded and attacked with missiles. It was a military intervention of the West and NATO against the then rump Yugoslavia.

  Vladimir Putin

  War, Military, Yugoslavia

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• They fought as they revelled, fast, fiery, and true, And, though victors, they left on the field not a few; And they who survived fought and drank as of yore, But the land of their heart's hope they never saw more, For in far, foreign fields, from Dunkirk to Belgrade Lie the soldiers and chiefs of the Irish Brigade.

  Thomas Davis

  Lying, Heart, Land

  1845 The Spirit of the Nation,'The Battle-Eve of the Brigade'.

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• We believe Slobodan Milosevic must be buried in his country, in Belgrade, at the Alley of Great Men.

  Ivica Dacic

  Country, Believe, Men

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