Stockholm Quotes

• When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation.

  Seamus Heaney

  Cities, Names, Mind

  Seamus Heaney (2014). “Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996”, p.415, Macmillan

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• But now I wish I could back to Stockholm to make international films there.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Wish, Film, International

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• You will also allow me to thank the Academy for inviting me to lecture in Stockholm, for its hospitality, and for the opportunity afforded me for admiring the charm of your people and the beauty of your country.

  Guglielmo Marconi

  Country, Opportunity, People

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• I went to high school in Texas for one year, my senior year. My parents wanted me to get out of Stockholm because I was running with the wrong crew. They wanted me to get back to my roots.

  Joel Kinnaman

  Senior, Running, School

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I mean, they call it Stockholm Syndrome and post traumatic stress disorder. And, you know, I had no free will. I had virtually no free will until I was separated from them for about two weeks.

  Patty Hearst

  Stress, Mean, Two

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• I'm in Stockholm in my office. I just got here after seeing my eighth child on an ultrasound, so I'm in a good mood. It's beautiful: an energetic little skeleton.

  Stellan Skarsgard

  Beautiful, Children, Skeletons

  "Stellan Skarsgård: 'I'm a castrated bull'" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. April 5, 2012.

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• Stockholm is very, like, posh and uptight, and everything should be so luxurious and refurbished.

  Karin Dreijer Andersson

  Uptight, Should, Posh

  "Fever Ray". Interview with Marc Hogan, pitchfork.com. March 30, 2009.

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• There is a very vibrant cultural scene in Stockholm. There are lots of places where there are concerts, and there are loads of museums and theaters.

  Bjorn Ulvaeus

  Museums, Scene, Theater

  "Bjorn Ulvaeus: ABBA star behind Mamma Mia". Interview with Gisella Deputato, www.cnn.com. September 3, 2009.

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• Just the way in Europe, Paris, Copenhagen, and Stockholm, and Frankfurt, possibly and Berlin, certainly, all had important roles, because of independence. Because they were depending on themselves.

  Jane Jacobs

  Europe, Paris, Independence

  Source: aqi.quebec

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• The first time I was in Stockholm, everybody was real cordial, but I started having these nightmares that I was being watched by aliens, basically all the time. My theory on it was that it was really, really unnerving to be in a place where English isn't the first language.

  Mikky Ekko

  Real, Firsts, Aliens

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Authors who moan with praise for their editors always seem to reek slightly of the Stockholm syndrome.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Writing, Editors, Praise

  Christopher Hitchens (2013). “Blood, Class and Empire: The Enduring Anglo-American Relationship”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• I tried to find myself and become a happy person without all the drugs and alcohol. And then I got back to Stockholm and I got pissed one night and had to sing.

  Gustav Ejstes

  Night, Alcohol, Drug

  "Dungen". Interview with Brandon Stosuy, pitchfork.com. March 27, 2005.

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• Here we have a case, the Swedish case, where I have never been charged with a crime, where I have already been cleared [by the Stockholm prosecutor] and found to be innocent, where the woman herself said that the police made it up, where the United Nations formally said the whole thing is illegal, where the State of Ecuador also investigated and found that I should be given asylum. Those are the facts, but what is the rhetoric?

  Julian Assange

  Police, Ecuador, Asylums

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• At least here in Stockholm if you go out to any of our 4 metal clubs and talk to ten guys you can be sure nine of them play in a band! The bad thing is there is no underground movement here anymore. Going to a show with local band's ten years ago would mean at least 300 people, now you can be lucky if 50 shows up!

  Johan Hegg

  Mean, Years, Play

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• I can write a story in working-class Stockholm Swedish, but I'm not going to assume I can perform the same feat with Cockney. I'll focus on adventures in story, themes and structure instead.

  Karin Tidbeck

  Writing, Adventure, Class

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• Since I've been in an actor, I've lived in Italy, in London, in Stockholm - I had the fortune of working in different locations. If you live someplace long enough, you acquire slightly different systems of thought, and it influences your outlook on life. I just slowly adapted the way I speak.

  Matthew Settle

  Outlook On Life, Long, London

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• I've always been intrigued by Stockholm Syndrome. Reminds me of my childhood.

  Jonathan Ames

  Childhood, Syndromes, Stockholm Syndrome

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• I think that for example as a prisoner of course I was pressured to become very submissive and in a way the syndrome of Stockholm is when you shift position and then you become like you're supposed to act, which is accepting the authority of those who have abducted you.

  Ingrid Betancourt

  Thinking, Example, Way

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Women, who are the prime victims of religion, and perhaps in some, stockholm syndrome effect, often form the most fervent advocates of the very thing that degrades them. I believe that in the end, it will be women who will turn this around. This should be the final stage of feminism. For a feminist to still believe in god is like a freed slave still living on the plantation.

  Matthew Chapman

  Believe, Feminist, Feminism

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• Did vampirism encourage Stockholm syndrome?

  MaryJanice Davidson

  Syndromes, Stockholm Syndrome, Vampirism

  MaryJanice Davidson (2004). “Undead and Unwed: A Queen Betsy Novel”, p.60, Penguin

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• The delicate and intricate pattern of competition and cooperation in the economic behavior of the hundreds of thousands of citizens of Stockholm offers a challenge to the economist that is perhaps as complex as the challenges of the physicist and the chemist.

  George Stigler

  Competition, Challenges, Citizens

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. 1982.

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• The full history of the interlocking participation of the Imperial German Government and international finance in the destruction of the Russian Empire is not yet written...It is not a mere coincidence that at the notorious meeting held at Stockholm in 1916, between the former Russian Minister of the Interior, Protopopoff, and the German Agents, the German Foreign Office was represented by Mr. Warburg, whose two brothers were members of the international banking firm, Kuhn, Loeb and Company, of which the late Mr. Jacob Schiff was a senior member.

  Boris Brasol

  Senior, Brother, Government

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• The most beautiful thing in Tokyo is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Stockholm is McDonald's. The most beautiful thing in Florence is McDonald's. Peking and Moscow don't have anything beautiful yet.

  Andy Warhol

  Beautiful, Mcdonalds, Florence

  Andy Warhol (2014). “The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Stop it. Do not feel safe with him. The Stockholm Syndrome is not your friend.

  J.R. Ward

  Safe, Syndromes, Stockholm Syndrome

  J.R. Ward (2007). “Lover Unbound: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.152, Penguin

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• Maybe it was a Patty Hearst thing. Stockholm syndrome or whatever it's called when you're being held against your will but then you become sucked in and fall in love. Or if not exactly love, you fall into something you can't see out of. 'I can't shoot a machine gun' becomes 'Hey, this hardly has any kick-back!

  Augusten Burroughs

  Falling In Love, Love You, Gun

  Augusten Burroughs (2004). “Running With Scissors”, p.106, Atlantic Books Ltd

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