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Quotes About Swedish

People who would go to an arthouse cinema and watch a Swedish movie and read subtitles... it's a small percentage.
~ Steven Zaillian
My first idol was a Swedish goalie, Peter Lindmark.
~ Henrik Lundqvist
The Swedish language combines the strong manhood of the German with the delicate beauty of the Italian.
~ Bayard Taylor
I was a Swedish guy who listened to Too Short.
~ Joel Kinnaman
I think a lot of American fans or people that read about us - they think that we're trying to be a part of the American culture, like all these Swedish kids that love America. We rap in English, so I guess there's something, but we're very Swedish, actually.
~ Yung Lean
Scandinavian rap started in the '90s, off the back of Run DMC, and it was a bunch of Swedish dudes doing the same thing.
~ Yung Lean
I'm Swedish. Sweden is known for its melancholia.
~ Johan Renck
Even things like Abba - I think it's always got a dark, subversive element to it. You've got these four blonde Swedish people singing about their relationships breaking up while they're all going out with each other.
~ James Righton
If my style is typically Swedish, I don't know. But I never shouted in all my life at players and I never did it at my children.
~ Sven-Goran Eriksson
I didn't grow up with a musical family. My mom had a lot of CDs in the house, particularly Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, ABBA, all the sort of like diva icons. She's Swedish, so she loves pop music.
~ Nina Nesbitt
Yeah, I am Swedish and a nice person. There is nothing wrong with that.
~ Victor Lindelof
All cheaters shop for Swedish discount furniture.
~ Joe Gatto
Our knowledge of Swedish culture is kind of limited. Bergman was one Swedish thing that we both knew about and were kind of passionate about.
~ Ron Mael
The Swedish style of songwriting is so mathematical.
~ Luke Hemmings
As you may have noticed, here we were living in a Swedish car in the parking lot of a Swedish mega-retailer. ??
~ Rick Moody
Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow. ~Swedish Proverb Lust is easy. Love is hard. Like is most important.
~ Carl Reiner
The Suzuki hit a trace of diesel on the second one and shied sideways, damned near high-siding me into the back end of a lumbering Volvo saloon. It would have made an ironic change for a biker to have wiped out a Swedish tank
~ Zoë Sharp
Montalbano sat outside reading a good detective novel by two Swedish authors, husband and wife, in which there wasn't a page without a ferocious and justified attack on social democracy and the government. In his mind, Montalbano dedicated the book to all those who did not deign to read mystery novels because, in their opinion, they were only entertaining puzzles.
~ Andrea Camilleri
Fika is a bit like afternoon tea but with coffee and pastries instead of sandwiches.
~ Rachel Khoo
I am glad to have this opportunity of expressing my high appreciation of the honour extended to me many years ago by the Royal Swedish Academy of Science by enrolling me amongst its members.
~ Guglielmo Marconi
Minneapolis was small, somnolent, and full of Swedish and Norwegian farmers as charming as cornstalks.
~ Erik Larson
Personally, I am a nationalist, but my race is my nation, and I see all true Europeans as my racial brethren and part of my nation, be them Norwegian, Danish, or Swedish, French, German, or English, Russian, Polish, or Belorussian, or whatever.
~ Varg Vikernes
1943 Bohr was tipped off by the Swedish ambassador in Copenhagen that he faced immediate arrest as part of the plan to deport all of Denmark's Jews.
~ Leonard Mlodinow
Sometimes it was difficult to be as tolerant as he wanted to be; but then, thought Ulf, the whole point about high ideals is that they are high. Being Swedish was not always easy, but you had to do your best, and hope that you didn't slip, and become... well, Mediterranean in outlook.
~ Alexander McCall Smith