quotes about Dutch
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I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - it’s the British…the Dutch…then it’s the Arabs…then it’s the French…then it’s the Jews…and then, on down the line.
-- Alex Jones -
This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety.
-- Andrew Marvell -
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam.
-- Ayaan Hirsi Ali -
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The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade.
-- Barry Davies -
I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame.
-- Bert Blyleven -
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you.
-- Billy Tauzin -
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch.
-- Daniel Defoe -
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But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana.
-- Eddie Izzard -
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese.
-- Eoin Colfer -
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps?
-- H. R. Giger -
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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 -
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch.
-- Jackie Collins -
I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty.
-- Jean-Claude Juncker -
And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.
-- Julie Burchill -
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If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off!
-- Marisol NicholsSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee.
-- Paolo Rossi -
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture.
-- Rem Koolhaas -
In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming.
-- Richard LindzenSource : "Climate of Fear". www.wsj.com. April 12, 2006.
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To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch
-- Ruud Gullit -
We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better.
-- Ruud Gullit -
And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.
-- Stephen Briggs -
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Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch.
-- Susanna Clarke -
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression.
-- Ben van Berkel -
When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music.
-- Eddy de ClercqSource : Source: thequietus.com
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The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way.
-- Eddy de ClercqSource : Source: thequietus.com
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Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days.
-- Eddy de Clercq -
In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "préman", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English.
-- Joshua OppenheimerSource : Source: collider.com
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The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.
-- Richard Brookhiser -
I speak English, obviously, Afrikaans, which is a derivative of Dutch that we have in South Africa. And then I speak African languages. So I speak Zulu. I speak Xhosa. I speak Tswana. And I speak Tsonga. And like - so those are my languages of the core. And then I don't claim German, but I can have a conversation in it. So I'm trying to make that officially my seventh language. And then, hopefully, I can learn Spanish.
-- Trevor Noah -
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And it’d be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington.
-- Stephen Briggs -
My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married.
-- Julio IglesiasSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.