Scandinavia Quotes

• We have a great deal to learn from Scandinavia and a great deal to be alarmed at from the Mediterranean.

  Gore Vidal

  Deals

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Inspirational, Children, Kids

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• More humane societies are usually smaller, like the Scandinavian countries and Holland, where it is much easier to reach consensus and cooperation.

  David Korten

  Country, Cooperation, Easier

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• Every person in this country who has the desire and ability should be able to get all the education they need regardless of the income of their family. This is not a radical idea. In Germany, Scandinavia and many other countries, higher education is either free or very inexpensive. We must do the same.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, College

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• In the ninth and tenth centuries the Vikings invaded Britain from Scandinavia and settled in large numbers. Their language, which we call Old Norse, was at least partly comprehensible to the English, who did not hesitate to take over hundreds of words from it: skirt, window, scrub, sky, give, hit, kick, scatter, scrape, skill, scowl, score, fellow, want, skin, knife, law, happy, ugly, wrong and even the pronouns they and them.

  Larry Trask

  Law, Knives, Sky

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• I always joke that I'm a British actress trying to break into Scandinavian TV.

  MyAnna Buring

  Trying, Actresses, Tvs

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• Why has Scandinavia been producing such good thrillers? Maybe because their filmmakers can't afford millions for CGI and must rely on cheaper elements like, you know, stories and characters.

  Roger Ebert

  Character, Stories, Elements

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• And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.

  Herman Gorter

  Country, Two, France

  "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.

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• But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the United States-are those that have preserved freedom for themselves and have given it to others. Of the despotism to which unrestrained military power leads we have plenty of examples from Alexander to Mao.

  Samuel Eliot Morison

  Military, Power, Sea

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• It is my express wish that in awarding the [Nobel Prizes] no consideration be given to the nationality of the candidates, but that the most worthy shall receive the prize, whether he be Scandinavian or not.

  Alfred Nobel

  Wish, Consideration, Nobel

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• Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they could compete with the best. If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he would definitely have written at least one thriller.

  Jo Nesbo

  Crime Novels, Names, Fiction

  "Jo Nesbø: 'If Salman Rushdie had been Norwegian, he'd have written a thriller'". Interview with John Crace, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2012.

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• I had an old band in Scandinavia, the beginning of Mercyful Fate, so it reminds me of my roots as a teenager. We used to play songs like Grinder and all that. It's really like being a teenager again. (Laughs)

  Yenz Leonhardt

  Song, Teenager, Fate

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• My influence is probably more from American crime writers than any Europeans. And I hardly read any Scandinavian crime before I started writing myself. I wasn't a great crime reader to begin with.

  Jo Nesbo

  Writing, Influence, Crime

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• You go to Scandinavia, and you will find that people have a much higher standard of living, in terms of education, health care and decent paying jobs.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Jobs, People

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

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• I believe Western culture - rule of law, universal suffrage, etc. - is preferable to Arab culture: that's why there are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria. Follow the traffic. I support immigration, but with assimilation.

  Mark Steyn

  Believe, Law, Support

  "Battered Westerner Syndrome inflicted by myopic Muslim defenders" by Mark Steyn, www.jewishworldreview.com. August 23, 2002.

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• They say that the best furniture and clothing design from the '50s and '60s is Scandinavian or Milanese.

  Christian Lacroix

  Design, Furniture, Clothings

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• The Norse way of speaking, no one really knew what the Vikings sounded liked, they were Norsemen. The accent is really a combination of a Scandinavian accent, maybe with a Swedish accent and an old way of speaking.

  Katheryn Winnick

  Way, Vikings, Accents

  "Interview: Katheryn Winnick discusses her ‘Vikings’ shield maiden". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. March 2, 2013.

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• Scandinavian crime fiction has become a great success all across the world and rightfully so. Sjowall and Wahloo ushered in a whole generation of Swedish crime writers, many of whom are now available in English.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Generations, Fiction, World

  "Camilla Läckberg's top 10 Swedish crime novels" by Camilla Läckberg, www.theguardian.com. March 12, 2009.

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• Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions

  Hjalmar Branting

  Taken, Years, League

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• I usually get up not before 9. I have a huge library - I'm a big fan of Scandinavian crime fiction - so I'll usually take a book and go off to one of my favorite bistros for a cappuccino or espresso or maybe I'll have some lovely smoked salmon for breakfast.

  Anthony Geary

  Book, Espresso, Lovely

  "Exclusive: General Hospital's Anthony Geary On Life, Death and the Future of Luke and Laura". Interview with Michael Logan, www.tvguide.com. October 9, 2013.

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• We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

  Connie Nielsen

  Choices, Sense Of Humor, Certain

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

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• Bernie Sanders talks about socialism in Scandinavia, and he's correct to point to the huge victories the working class has won there through struggle, such as socialized medicine, free college education, and paid family leave. But if you talk to working people in Sweden or Norway today, you will find out that many of those past gains have been eroded and some virtually eliminated, including massive under-funding of healthcare and other public services and a return to for-profit systems that are unaffordable to working class people.

  Kshama Sawant

  Struggle, Past, College

  Source: www.socialistalternative.org

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• I live in the United States, and I'm not moving. But from the standpoint of food safety, the countries in Scandinavia do it better than we do. It's not that they don't have food-poisoning incidents; it's that there are many fewer in proportion to the population.

  Marion Nestle

  Country, Moving, Safety

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.

  James Lovelock

  Iceland, Environmental, Population

  "James Lovelock, the Prophet" by Jeff Goodell, www.rollingstone.com. November 1, 2007.

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• I think that in our part of the world, Scandinavia, we are one of the pioneers of showing that gastronomy can be something - high gastronomy can be something very, very present and doesnt have to involve, you know, what is perceived as the normal luxury items that belong in a high gastronomy restaurant.

  Rene Redzepi

  Thinking, Luxury, Pioneers

  "René Redzepi: In His Own Words". ABC Interview, abcnews.go.com. June 17, 2010.

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