Netherlands Quotes
39 quotes by 32 authors
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If we don't take effective measures now, the Netherlands could be torn between two extreme rights.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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Respecting the dignity of a spectacular food means enjoying it at its best. Europeans celebrate the short season of abundant asparagus as a form of…
— Barbara Kingsolver
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The United States of America have taken their name from the United States of the Netherlands.
— Seth Low
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... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich…
— Daniel J. Mitchell
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The Netherlands have great strikers... but they are only playing one. They are depriving themselves of their best qualities and shooting themselves in the foot.
— Franz Beckenbauer
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The Netherlands are wet, flat and full of stoned people.
— John Entwistle
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on…
— Eduard Shevardnadze
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But sea power has never led to despotism. The nations that have enjoyed sea power even for a brief period-Athens, Scandinavia, the Netherlands, England, the…
— Samuel Eliot Morison
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This is one of the gravest crises Europe has ever experienced... An agreement failed because of the completely stubborn attitudes of the UK and the…
— Gerhard Schroder
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I remember once visiting an outdoor exhibition of sculpture in Arnhem, the Netherlands. One of the artists had placed this notice at the base of…
— John Wijngaards
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This is what we've been waiting for: finally, an unprecedented critical analysis of the history of Dutch design. Mienke Simon Thomas's Dutch Design is a…
— Wim Crouwel
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In the Netherlands I read the first chapter of Exquisite Corpse to an audience that laughed in all the places I thought were funny -…
— Poppy Z. Brite
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Curator Shantrelle P. Lewis left for Amsterdam an Andy Warhol fellow, and came back with a film in her pocket. Please support this confrontation of…
— dream hampton
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I think that after Church got his Ph.D. he studied in Europe, maybe in the Netherlands, for a year or two.
— Stephen Cole Kleene
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Praise the Lord, O England's Jerusalem: and Netherland's Zion, praise ye the Lord! He hath secured your gates, and blessed your possessions with peace, even…
— Peter Stuyvesant
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...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up.
— Andrew Sullivan
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I read Claire Messud's 'The Emperor's Children,' I read Joseph O'Neill's 'Netherland' - but to me, they're not 9/11 novels. In 'The Emperor's Children,' 9/11…
— Amy Waldman
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I was born William. My father was William. I came from a big family, I hated being called Billy. Willem's a nickname; it's a Dutch…
— Willem Dafoe
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Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany have detailed plans to cut their greenhouse emissions by 20 to 50 percent.
— Donella Meadows
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The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands last…
— Otto Schily
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