Dutch Quotes - Page 4

• Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat.

  John Green

  Language, Throat, Ailments

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.127, Penguin UK

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• I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Judging, Chinese, Goes On

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. 2008.

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• I'm from Holland and the history of "Admiral" is something you would read about when you're at school. Nobody knows about these stories and when you go to any museum in Holland, you will see these paintings of these 17th century sea beckels that the Dutch were in to, so it always intrigued me.

  Roel Reine

  School, Museums, Sea

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• When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Citizenship, Crime

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• With 'Twilight,' you have these massive tomes that you have to condense. With 'Penoza,' we had an eight episode Dutch series that, just for the pilot alone, I condensed three episodes. So, there's a lot of filling in and a ton of invention that has to happen to fill out eight episodes.

  Melissa Rosenberg

  Twilight, Eight, Three

  "Screenwriter Melissa Rosenberg Talks THE TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN – PART 2, ABC’s RED WIDOW, the Status of AKA JESSICA JONES, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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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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• There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch.

  Michael Caine

  Hate, Two, People

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• If I could just stay alive for a week, I’d know the unwritten secrets of Anna’s mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy.

  John Green

  Mom, Guy, Secret

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.77, Penguin

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• What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen.

  J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

  Men, Scotch, Race

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• You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them.

  Franz Beckenbauer

  Germany, Knows, Bits

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• One day in Auschwitz I became so dispirited that I couldn't carry on. They had given me a beating, which wasn't exactly a pleasant experience. It was on a Sunday, and I said: 'I can't get up'. Then my comrades said: 'That's impossible, you have to get up, otherwise you're lost'. They went to a Dutch doctor, who worked with the German doctor. He came to me in the barracks and said: 'Get up and come to the hospital barracks early tomorrow morning. I'll talk to the German doctor and make sure you are admitted'. Because of that I survived.

  Otto Frank

  Morning, Sunday, Doctors

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• [The Dutch] people want [refugees to be safe] but don't come here. And don't forget, people are very angry about that, that most of the people who came to Holland were younger people, often young men who crossed before coming to Holland six of seven safe countries in order to be in Holland. If they just wanted to be safe, they would have stopped at Turkey or maybe if you find Turkey unsafe, in Greece.

  Geert Wilders

  Country, Men, Order

  Source: www1.cbn.com

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• The book is almost always better than the movie. You could have no better case in point than FROM HELL, Alan Moore's best graphic novel to date, brilliantly illustrated by Eddie Campbell. It's hard to describe just how much better the book is. It's like, "If the movie was an episode of Battlestar Galactica with a guest appearance by the Smurfs and everyone spoke Dutch, the graphic novel is Citizen Kane with added sex scenes and music by your favourite ten bands and everyone in the world you ever hated dies at the end." That's how much better it is.

  Warren Ellis

  Sex, Book, Bad Ass

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• Sarah Palin is speaking out about the oil spill. She said, I'm not kidding, we should ask the Dutch for help with the spill because the Dutch have the world's best dikes. So let me get this straight. It is OK to cover lesbians in oil but you just can't let them get married.

  Craig Ferguson

  Oil, World, Helping

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• I considered the attacks on London useless, and I told the Fuhrer again and again that inasmuch as I knew the English people as well as I did my own people, I could never force them to their knees by attacking London. We might be able to subdue the Dutch people by such measures but not the British.

  Hermann Goring

  People, Useless, Might

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• I think many Dutch just don't know the history of Black Pete, that he is rooted in slavery, and how he was used to dehumanize a race of people. Once they realize this, many stop using this character, but those who continue are either in denial, insensitive or actually racists.

  Roger Ross Williams

  Character, Thinking, Race

  Source: www.theskanner.com

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• Authorities in New York City have foiled a plot by terrorists to blow up the Holland Tunnel. There was one awkward moment when officials informed President Bush the Holland Tunnel was safe. Bush then thanked the Dutch authorities for all their help.

  Jay Leno

  New York, Blow, Tunnels

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• The church, by and large, has had a poor record of encouraging freedom. She has spent so much time inculcating in us the fear of making mistakes, that she has made us like ill-taught piano students: we play our songs, but we never really hear them because our main concern is not to make music to avoid some flub that will get us in dutch.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Song, Mistake, Play

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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, Switzerland, Different

  Source: lynnhappens.com

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• Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to get involved with one of the attacking sides, and allowed it to destroy a whole village. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. The tragedy in Srebrenica is well known in Europe.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, People, Tragedy

  Source: russialist.org

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• After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over.

  Joshua Oppenheimer

  Military, Real, Renaissance

  Source: collider.com

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• When I was in Dutch and Italian football, a lot of people looked at Manchester United, and when they were asked who was the best player, a lot of them said Paul Scholes. Much of what he did looked simple, but actually it was quite hard. Invariably he controlled the ball instantly and passed it straight on, keeping the game moving. He made inch-perfect passes across the pitch; he saw the gaps and could play the ball through them. So it didn't surprise me that so many top-class international footballers recognized his quality.

  Edwin van der Sar

  Football, Moving, Simple

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• Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.

  Eddy de Clercq

  Economy, These Days, Music Is

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts.

  John Oliver

  Doubt, Language, Economics

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• LTCM lost money when Russia defaulted on a certain class of bonds, and then they had other investments like on the spread between two different kinds of shares of Royal Dutch Shell Oil Company. Now that seems completely unrelated to Russian bonds. But they were related because other hedge funds saw similar discrepancies and they were all making similar bets.

  Richard Thaler

  Russia, Class, Two

  "Big Think Interview With Richard Thaler". bigthink.com. June 19, 2009.

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