Sweden Quotes

• Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism.

  Julian Assange

  Feminism, Arabia, Saudis

  "Definition of paranoia: supporters of Julian Assange" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. June 23, 2012.

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• I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.

  Daniel Ek

  Born, Piracy, Known

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• People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.

  Avicii

  People, Conscious

  "The King of Oontz Oontz Oontz" by Jessica Pressler, www.gq.com. March 29, 2013.

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• America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay!

  Matt Groening

  Japan, Europe, America

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• It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.

  Mats Sundin

  Sports, Eye, Caught

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• What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory.

  Milton Friedman

  Forbidden

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• Dignity is like a perfume; those who use it are scarcely conscious of it.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Use, Dignity, Conscious

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• I've seen quite a bit of the world, but I really like Sweden and feel like I could live there some day.

  Juliana Hatfield

  World, Feels, Bits

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• The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.

  Mona Sahlin

  Return, Genocide, Integrated

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• If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.

  MyAnna Buring

  Jobs, Bells, Ifs

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• Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell.

  James J. Hill

  Funny, Giving, Snuff

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• I love men, not because they are men, but because they are not women

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Inspiration, Men

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• Nuns and married women are equally unhappy, if in different ways.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Unhappy, Different, Way

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• We grow old more through indolence, than through age.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Age, Indolence, Grows

  Maxims (1660 - 80)

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• As you know, no one over thirty years of age is afraid of tittle-tattle. I myself find it much less difficult to strangle a man than to fear him.

  Christina, Queen of Sweden

  Men, Years, Age

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• Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

  Goran Persson

  Europe, Remember, Performing

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• Northern Sweden holds a special kind of magic. It's cold, lonely, and the people are tough and silent, or so the stereotype says. This is Asa Larsson's home turf and I find as much joy in reading her closely observed descriptions of the environment, as in following her intriguing plots.

  Camilla Lackberg

  Lonely, Reading, Home

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

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• I come from a family of pacifists, so it's not like I was going to join the war. Sweden is not like the States or England where you might get sent to Afghanistan next month.

  Bill Skarsgard

  War, Might, Next

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• The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.

  Karl Ove Knausgard

  People, Way, Different

  "'Something that's not yourself.' — An Interview with Karl Ove Knausgård". Interview with Rebecka Bülow, logger.believermag.com. September 18, 2013.

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• My favorite way to wake up is to have a certain French movie star whisper to me softly at two-thirty in the afternoon that if I want to get to Sweden in time to pick up my Nobel Prize for Literature, I had better ring for breakfast. This occurs rather less often than one might wish.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Stars, Two, Wish

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 25, 2010

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• In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.

  Maud Adams

  Actresses, Film, Exceptional

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• Of course, no state accepts [that it should call] the people it is imprisoning or detaining for political reasons, political prisoners. They don't call them political prisoners in China, they don't call them political prisoners in Azerbaijan and they don't call them political prisoners in the United States, U.K. or Sweden; it is absolutely intolerable to have that kind of self-perception.

  Julian Assange

  Self, Azerbaijan, People

  Source: www.zerohedge.com

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• How can the United States be competitive globally if higher education is unaffordable? Germany, Austria, Denmark, Finland, Norway, Scotland and Sweden have no tuition for college. Other countries have low tuition. We need the best educated workforce in the world. Instead of spending endless amounts on the military, we need to invest in our young people.

  Bernie Sanders

  Education, Country, Military

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• France is the country with the highest taxes in Europe along with Sweden...something of which I am not proud.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Country, Europe, Proud

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• I'm from Sweden so I don't enjoy winter at all; there's nothing cute about it.

  Lykke Li

  Cute, Winter, Enjoy

  Source: pitchfork.com

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