Norwegian Quotes
41 quotes by 37 authors
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Norwegian legislation is more in conformity with the rules of the European Union than most member states.
— Jose Manuel Barroso
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It wouldn't matter whether you were Latino or Hispanic or Norwegian. If you didn't have proof of citizenship and if the police officer had reasonable…
— Jan Brewer
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One question that has always intrigued me is what happens to demonic beings when immigrants move from their homelands. Irish-Americans remember the fairies. Norwegian-Americans the…
— Richard Mercer Dorson
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Ibsen was Norwegian by birth, but universal in spirit.
— Liv Ullmann
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People thought me a bit strange at first; a blond haired, blue-eyed Norwegian who sang Mexican folk songs, but I used it to my advantage…
— David Soul
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I'm 100% Norwegian. Three generations removed and all continuous inbreeding of Norwegian of Minnesota and Iowa, so I traveled to Norway before.
— Eric Christian Olsen
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It's a peculiarity of the Norwegian culture and of the English and American, too, that men are not supposed to cry. Stiff upper lip and…
— Philip Jose Farmer
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We always had lutefisk for Christmas dinner, after which Dad read from the Norwegian Bible.
— Peter Agre
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As a cabin boy on a Norwegian sailing ship I earned five kronen a week in addition to my keep.
— Fritz Sauckel
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At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian…
— Jo Nesbo
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His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand, He…
— John Milton
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The Norwegian response to violence is more democracy, more openness and greater political participation,
— Jens Stoltenberg
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Immigrants in Norway must learn Norwegian. The same should Spaniards in Spain do, if they want to work with Norwegians.
— Carl I. Hagen
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It is typically Norwegian to be good
— Kjell Magne Bondevik
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A Shakespeare could have arisen only on English soil. In the same way, your great dramatists and poets express the nature and essence of the…
— Gustav Stresemann
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
— Roald Dahl
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Many Scandinavian writers who had made their name in literary fiction felt they wanted to have a go at the crime novel to show they…
— Jo Nesbo
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Norwegian kids, they grow up well educated in film. So they have a lot of good directors there.
— Stellan Skarsgard
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a…
— Karin Fossum
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Well, I have a Norwegian father who emigrated to America in the 1950s, and he still speaks with varying degrees of an accent. Over my…
— Christopher Heyerdahl
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