Sweden quotes
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Ethnically, the Germans are Teutonic...being made up of Vandals, Gepidae, and Goths, all of whom emigrated - south from Sweden in about 500 BC; why they emigrated is not exactly clear, but many scholars believe it was because they saw the way Sweden was going, i.e. neutral.
-- Alan Coren -
I'm from Sweden. We don't wear clothes in Sweden.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
We don't have paparazzi following you in Sweden.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
People in Sweden are very conscious of what people are saying about you.
-- Avicii -
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There's something I love about how stark the contrast is between January and June in Sweden.
-- Bill Skarsgard -
I have read many studies out of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden and they demonstrated that Vitamin E, Co-Q-10, and Fish Oil could protect the immune system of athletes and prevent disease.
-- Bill Toomey -
I believe that religion should be totally separated from the state. That's not the way it is today, not even in Sweden.
-- Bjorn Ulvaeus -
I own a home in Sweden, I rent in both Los Angeles and in Britain, and I'm constantly travelling.
-- Britt Ekland -
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I was born in Sweden, and in Sweden we are known for the piracy services.
-- Daniel Ek -
Once I got into punk rock, I started mail-ordering albums, because a lot of the record stores in my area didn't carry the punk bands from England or Sweden or Chicago or Los Angeles
-- Dave Grohl -
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
-- David Nicholls -
When I was a kid, I was like everyone else: afraid of getting nuked. We had drills in school - Sweden was very close to the Soviet Union. There was definitely a lot of tension.
-- Dolph Lundgren -
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I very often get that question: 'What is your real profession?' That's because in Sweden, it is 'not allowed' to have more than one profession - there's something suspicious about it! But nowadays it's more accepted that one can do a lot of things.
-- Erland Josephson -
Marriage is not common in Sweden.
-- Eva Gabrielsson -
When I was growing up in the United States and Sweden, I never thought about becoming a politician.
-- George Papandreou -
I said it before we arrived in Athens, that we wanted to prove to the world that our bronze medal in Sweden was not a fluke, and we have achieved this.
-- Gianluca Basile -
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Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.
-- Goran Persson -
Many people say I smile more in Africa than in Sweden.
-- Henning Mankell -
You're not really supposed to like ABBA in Sweden. It's nerdy.
-- Izabella Scorupco -
I was born in Poland I came to Sweden when I was eight and always wanted to act and suddenly ended up in a Bond movie which was for me at that time absolutely enormous.
-- Izabella Scorupco -
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We probably got on better with the likes of Holland, Belgium, Norway and Sweden, some of whom are not even European.
-- Jack Charlton -
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 -
I have had much to learn from Sweden's poetry and, more especially, from her lyrics of the last generation.
-- Knut Hamsun -
Many of the comedies I had made in Sweden were slightly based on semi-autobiographical experiences, so adapting novels was a very different experience.
-- Lasse Hallstrom -
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Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.
-- Lee Hazlewood -
Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.
-- Maj Sjowall -
Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.
-- Malin Akerman -
Thanksgiving is one of my favorite American traditions. I quickly picked it up when I moved to the U.S. from Sweden.
-- Marcus Samuelsson -
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It's all trotters in Sweden, so that's what's always caught my eye.
-- Mats Sundin -
In Sweden, only exceptional actresses get major film parts.
-- Maud Adams -
My monetary studies have led me to the conclusion that central banks could profitably be replaced by computers. Fortunately, for me personally, that conclusion has had no practical impact, else there would have been no Central Bank of Sweden to have established the award [Nobel Prize] I am honored to receive.
-- Milton Friedman -
The Swedes must be integrated into the new Sweden , the old Sweden will not return.
-- Mona Sahlin -
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If the right job came along, absolutely with bells on I would work in Sweden.
-- MyAnna Buring -
International markets are much bigger than the U.S. In Sweden we have 9 million inhabitants, and if you're successful in Sweden, you're not successful - it's such a small market.
-- Niklas Zennstrom -
In Sweden everybody has this perfect surface. Everyones very polite and controls their feelings.
-- Noomi Rapace -
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible
-- Raoul Wallenberg -
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Sweden is famous for many things - but not fashion.
-- Stefan Persson -
If you travel to Germany, it's still absolutely Germany. If you travel to Sweden, it still has a Swedish identity.
-- Steven Morrissey -
There's this other girl called Lykke Li from Sweden - I really want to collaborate with her, that'd be great. Obviously Kanye West as well, and Drake would be pretty amazing.
-- Tinie Tempah -
And it wasn't until '84 when I was first asked to come to Sweden and do an album and concert tour.
-- Wanda Jackson -
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I don't speak anything fluently, but I love picking up languages and I do this Duolingo app. I started when I moved to Sweden, when I was about 19, 20. I really loved the language; it was super melodic and really sexy.
-- Eliot Paulina Sumner -
In Sweden, we have what is called 'The Finnish Disease.' It consists of not talking much, or at all.
-- Hannes Holm -
I consider myself 'local' in Sweden.
-- Hannes Holm -
In the nineties, it was all women being blonde and from Sweden. But now it's changed: it's all men looking like Ellen DeGeneres.
-- Pablo Francisco -
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We grow old more through indolence, than through age.
-- Christina, Queen of Sweden -
I've worked a lot of historical stuff back in Sweden and there's always conflict with horses. I get a bit paranoid when I'm on them, and they can sense that and they get a bit paranoid. It ends up in this bad spiral where I don't want to be on them, and they don't want me on their backs.
-- George Blagden
