Danish Quotes

• Beer is the Danish national drink, and the Danish national weakness is another beer.

  Clementine Paddleford

  Food, Beer, Cooking

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• Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Love, Life, Positive

  The Journals of Søren Kierkegaard, 1844.

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• The Danish glee: the national version of cheerfulness.

  Georg Brandes

  Glee, Cheerfulness, Versions

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment

  Arne Jacobsen

  Furniture, Enough, Plastic

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• He who does not understand a joke, he does not understand Danish.

  Georg Brandes

  Doe, Jokes

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have also been saddened, though hardly surprised, by the weakness of the EU's reaction to the criminal attack on the Danish embassy in Syria, which seems to have been permitted, if not actively encouraged, by the Syrian regime.

  Timothy Garton Ash

  Weakness, Criminals, Reactions

  "Our media must give Muslims the chance to debate with each other" by Timothy Garton Ash, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2006.

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• My wife is Danish and we go to Denmark a couple of times a year.

  Ted Shackelford

  Couple, Years, Wife

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• We have had such a letter movement on two occasions in Denmark when more than a quarter of the adult Danish population participated. Such an achievement, however, demands a really great effort and also a great deal of money.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Two, Achievement, Effort

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• With millions of family wage manufacturing jobs lost since 2001, we need an energy bill that takes bold action to tap into American ingenuity in order to lead the world in new clean energy technology, rather than playing catch-up to the Japanese, Danish, and Germans.

  Jay Inslee

  Jobs, Technology, Order

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• I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin.

  Virginia Madsen

  Mother, Father, Native American

  FaceBook post by Virginia Madsen from Feb 03, 2017

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• American Danish can be doughy, heavy, sticky, tasting of prunes and is usually wrapped in cellophane. Danish Danish is light, crisp, buttery and often tastes of marzipan or raisins; it is seldom wrapped in anything but loving care.

  R. W. Apple

  Food, Light, Cooking

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• Danish film is spreading in a fantastic way.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Way, Film, Fantastic

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• We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

  Tony Benn

  War, July, Play

  Tony Benn's Speech in House of Commons, hansard.millbanksystems.com. October 23, 2000.

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• Where words fail, music speaks.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Inspirational, Music, Art

  Hans Christian Andersen (1876). “Stories for the Young”

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• Life can only be understood backwards.

  Mackenzie Astin

  Short Life, Moving Forward, Reflection

  "Fictional character: David Shrader". Dream for an Insomniac, www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• A road to a friend's house is never long.

  Ann Richards

  Friendship, Wise, Long

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• A flute without holes, is not a flute. A donut without a hole, is a Danish.

  Chevy Chase

  Flutes, Holes, Donuts

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• What kind of a god is it that's upset by a cartoon in Danish?

  Salman Rushdie

  Upset, Cartoon, Kind

  Interview with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. June 23, 2006.

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• Tenacity is a pretty fair substitute for bravery, and the best form of tenacity I know is expressed in a Danish fur trapper's principle: "The next mile is the only one a person really has to make."

  Eric Sevareid

  Bravery, Principles, Fur

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• If one takes pleasure in calling the gold standard a "barbarous relic," one cannot object to the application of the same term to every historically determined institution. Then the fact that the British speak English - and not Danish, German, or French - is a barbarous relic too, and every Briton who opposes the substitution of Esperanto for English is no less dogmatic and orthodox than those who do not wax rapturous about the plans for a managed currency.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Speak English, Gold, Facts

  "The Gold Standard". Excerpt from chapter 17 of "Human Action, The Scholar's Edition", book by Ludwig von Mises, mises.org. 1949.

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• I think that Danish people may be thought off as the happiest people, but honestly...I love America.

  Nicolas Winding Refn

  Thinking, America, People

  Source: movieweb.com

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• I'd come to believe there was no food more depressing than Danish, a pastry that seemed stale upon arrival

  Gillian Flynn

  Depressing, Believe, Pastries

  Gillian Flynn (2014). “The Complete Gillian Flynn: Gone Girl, Dark Places, Sharp Objects”, p.117, Broadway Books

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• Did you ever notice, when you are sitting at a red light, that when the person in front of you pulls up a couple of inches, you are compelled to move up too? Do we really think we are making progress toward our destination? "Whew, I thought we would be late, but now that I am nine inches closer, I can stop for coffee and a danish!"

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Couple, Coffee, Moving

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• Scandinavian-Danish cuisine was something quite rustic, mostly known for pastries and smorgasbord cuisine, which in itself has become a joke.

  Rene Redzepi

  Cuisine, Pastries, Scandinavians

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believe that adulterers should be stoned to death. I believe that we should cut the hands off of thieves. I believe the Sharia should be implemented in Denmark. Maybe we should change the Christiansborg Palace [the Danish Parliament building] to Muslimsborg to have the flag of Islam flying over the parliament in Denmark. I think this would be very nice.

  Anjem Choudary

  Nice, Believe, Cutting

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