quotes about Switzerland
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I want to know where is that committee in Switzerland that sits to decide what is in and what is out. I don't listen to the formula makers. I think maybe I have a selective hearing disorder.
-- Alber Elbaz -
Well, see, there's this cave in Switzerland I really need to find.' She slipped on her sunglasses; was already in the middle of the street when she turned and looked back at Hale and Gabrielle. 'You coming?
-- Ally Carter -
I remember Agassi playing Federer in Basel, Switzerland in 1998, and Andre was already saying at that time that Federer would be tough. Usually at the time players are 17, you can see if they will be great.
-- Brad GilbertSource : Interview with Nima Naderi, tennisconnected.com. April 8, 2010.
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Lenin had taken part in Jewish student meetings in Switzerland thirty-five years before.
-- Chaim Weizmann -
Internationally, I love going to Switzerland. I went there many times for shooting and loved the Alps, the tranquility, cleanliness, the greenery and the warmth of the people there.
-- Chiranjeevi -
My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.
-- Christopher Lambert -
I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he's 90 years old now, so he's no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.
-- Claude Nicollier -
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When I'm in the Switzerland backcountry and nobody around looks like me, people were like, 'Can I touch your hair?'
-- Dhani Jones -
Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.
-- Fatos Nano -
The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.
-- Fritz KreislerSource : Fritz Kreisler (2014). “Four Weeks In The Trenches; The War Story Of A Violinist [Illustrated Edition]”, p.9, Pickle Partners Publishing
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
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It's the change of rhythm which I think is what keeps me alive. In Spain I hear so much noise from my window that can't stand it. In Switzerland it's the lack of noise that drives me crazy.
-- Geraldine Chaplin -
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 GorterSource : "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin" by Herman Gorter, www.marxists.org. 1920.
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It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little.
-- Hugh Laurie -
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
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I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.
-- James Boswell -
Senator John Kerry released his plan today to eliminate the deficit. He said all we have to do is find a really rich country like Switzerland and marry it.
-- Jay Leno -
In 25 years of exile, I've never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.
-- Jean-Claude Duvalier -
I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.
-- John Howe -
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I'll put it frankly - Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.
-- Jose Manuel BarrosoSource : "José Manuel Barroso: 'How is Britain so open to the world, but so closed to Europe?'". Interview with David Miliband, www.newstatesman.com. July 11, 2012.
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How could you get mad at someone who neither needed to attack nor was at all worried about being able to defend? It was like getting mad at Switzerland.
-- Karl Marlantes -
I just got back from Switzerland, which I've never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.
-- Linda Cardellini -
I've lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.
-- Martina Hingis -
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It's tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.
-- Michele Bachmann -
When all the world is socialist, Switzerland will have to remain capitalist, so that it can tell us the price of everything.
-- Nikita Khrushchev -
In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.
-- Norman Granz -
I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
-- Parminder Nagra -
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Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.
-- Simon Hoggart -
I am Switzerland. I refuse to be affected by territorial disputes between mythical creatures.
-- Stephenie Meyer -
I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.
-- Sydney Smith -
Everybody says Steve McManaman played on the left for me in Euro 96 but he never played on the left. The one time he did play on the left was against Switzerland.
-- Terry Venables -
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No one really likes Switzerland, except those who prefer cleanliness to life.
-- TrevanianSource : Trevanian (2005). “The Eiger Sanction: A Novel”, p.180, Crown
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I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.
-- Ursula Andress -
A possibility is that we see more and more leverage, and credit-to-GDP ratios rise once more to even higher levels; eventually the banking systems of all advanced economies reach magnitudes of 500 percent, 1000 percent or more of GDP, so that every economy starts to have financial systems that resemble recent cases like Switzerland, Ireland, Iceland, or Cyprus. That might be a very fragile world to live in.
-- Alan M. TaylorSource : Source: www.truth-out.org
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I was born in Switzerland. Everyone thinks I'm Swiss, but I'm actually German. I'm from Germany.
-- Baran OdarSource : Source: collider.com
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You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland.
-- Cristina Garcia -
Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.
-- Jean ZieglerSource : Source: www.spiegel.de
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Money comes to Switzerland through three illegal sources: tax evasion in other developed countries, the blood money of dictators and other rulers in the Third World and organized crime.
-- Jean ZieglerSource : Source: www.spiegel.de