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• It's interesting that Swiss banks also hide their assets from the Swiss by using offshore bank structuring.

  Julian Assange

  Interesting, Assets, Offshore

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• My father's Peruvian! I actually have a lot of family in Cuzco. I'm also Swiss, Alaskan, French, Spanish and Italian.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Father, Italian, Peruvians

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• Swiss watchmaking and Silicon Valley is a marriage of technological innovation with watchmaking credibility. Our collaboration provides a rich host of synergies, forming a win-win partnership, and the potential for our three companies is enormous.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Winning, Innovation, Collaboration

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• The hardware and the software will come from Silicon Valley. But the watch case, the dial, the design, the idea, the crown, that part of the watch will, of course, be Swiss.

  Jean-Claude Biver

  Ideas, Design, Watches

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• As a child growing up in a grey-skied Yorkshire village, I would occasionally happen upon a Bollywood movie on the television. After a few minutes watching a bunch of sari-clad dancers cavorting on a Swiss mountain to tuneless music, I would switch over to some proper drama about housing estates and single mothers.

  Simon Beaufoy

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

  "Life on the hard shoulder" by Simon Beaufoy, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2008.

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• Nations like the Cuban and the Swiss
  Can never hope to wage a Global Mission.
  No Holy Wars for them. The most the small
  Can ever give us is a nuisance brawl.

  Robert Frost

  War, Giving, Nuisance

  Robert Frost (1971). “The poetry of Robert Frost”

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• My father was a very good amateur pianist, and he had a collection of books on technique. One of the things he had was a small volume of exercises by Rudolf Ganz, in which Ganz mentions the pedagogical work of the Swiss composer, Émile-Robert Blanchet, who wrote a ton of polyphonic exercises for one-hand. These exercises were a great help for finger independence, which I acquired early on. This might have given me somewhat of an edge, a facility to be able to knock any obstacle that was in my way.

  Marc-Andre Hamelin

  Father, Book, Exercise

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. November 8, 2013.

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• They should make new ways to better design buildings and books. The computer was the end of Swiss typography!

  Emil Ruder

  Book, Design, Way

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• I've never had a bank account in Switzerland since 1984. Why would the Swiss do this to me? Maybe the Swiss are trying to divert attention from the Holocaust gold scandal.

  Benazir Bhutto

  Holocaust, Trying, Gold

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

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• I feel all agitated, like one of those snow globes you see resting peacefully on shop counters. I was perfectly happy being an ordinary, dull little Swiss village. But now Jack Harper’s come and shaken me up, and there are snowflakes all over the place, whirling around until I don’t know what I think anymore. And bits of glitter, too. Tiny bits of shiny, secret excitement.

  Sophie Kinsella

  Thinking, Snow, Secret

  Sophie Kinsella (2004). “Can You Keep a Secret?”, Random House Digital, Inc.

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• Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.

  Bill Bryson

  Inspirational, Sarcastic, Fun

  Bill Bryson (2010). “Neither Here, Nor There: Travels in Europe”, p.25, Random House

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• Switzerland is a land where crime is virtually unknown, yet most Swiss males are required by law to keep in their homes what amounts to a portable, personal machine gun.

  Tom Clancy

  Home, Gun, Law

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• The entire world will be in nuclear war, and only the Swiss will be going, 'what's that noise?'

  Robin Williams

  War, Noise, Nuclear

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• Maybe 23 cents doesn't sound like a lot to someone with a Swiss bank account, Cayman Island Investments and an IRA worth tens of millions of dollars. But Governor Romney, when we lose 23 cents every hour, every day, every paycheck, every job, over our entire lives, what we lose can't just be measured in dollars.

  Lilly Ledbetter

  Jobs, Badass, Islands

  Lilly Ledbetter's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever.

  Albert Einstein

  Makeup, Attachment, Special

  Letter to Alfred Kneser, 7 June 1918

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• And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.

  Rene Auberjonois

  Father, Actors, Puritan

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• I want to be remembered for Swiss Family Robinson and Old Yeller. I think Swiss is probably my favorite film

  Tommy Kirk

  Thinking, Want, Film

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• Swiss Cheese is a rip-off It's the only cheese I can bite into and miss

  Mitch Hedberg

  Rip, Missing, Cheese

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• The Theory of Evolution has more holes in it than a dam made out of Swiss cheese.

  Eoin Colfer

  Theory Of Evolution, Dams, Cheese

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• Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.

  Eoin Colfer

  Dams, Dutch, Cheese

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• You know, in 1975 I couldn't get a job in New York City because I was American. The kitchens were predominantly run by French, Swiss, German, and basically I got laughed at. I had education, I had experience, but got laughed at because I was American.

  Emeril Lagasse

  Running, Jobs, New York

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• One of my favorite things to cook is fondue. I'm Swiss. It's a great social meal.

  Ryan Seacrest

  Meals, Fondue, Favorites Things

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• On Saturday, he ate through one piece of chocolate cake, one ice-cream cone, one pickle, one slice of Swiss cheese, one slice of salami, one lollipop, one piece of cherry pie, one sausage, one cupcake, and one slice of watermelon That night he had a stomach ache.

  Eric Carle

  Night, Pie, Ice Cream

  Eric Carle (2016). “The Very Hungry Caterpillar”, p.19, Penguin

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• The Swiss are a neat and an industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age.

  Dorothy Parker

  Years, People, Age

  Dorothy Parker (1970). “A month of Saturdays: thirty-one famous pieces by "Constant Reader"”

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• They shot me. (Talon) No, bud. They turned you into Swiss cheese. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Bud, Cheese, Talons

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