I loved movies and went to see every movie I could in Finland. — Renny Harlin
In Finland, getting a university degree is the first thing that you expect your kids to do. — Renny Harlin
Finnish companies tend to be very traditional, not taking many risks. Silicon Valley is completely different: people here really live on the edge. — Linus Torvalds
Digital Chocolate has 60% of its developers in Finland where the sun never sets in the summer and there is nothing to do outside in the winter, so we are very productive! — Trip Hawkins
It proved to be pretty impossible to get funds for a feature film in Finland. It's still small, but the film industry was miniscule at that point in the early '80s. — Renny Harlin
I did some film reviews for small papers in Finland and things like that to be able to keep living here. — Renny Harlin
Iceland, I'm in love with that country, the people are incredible. — Kit Harington
Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. — Steven Wright
Right now I would rank Norway as the largest country in the world, I have never seen anything like it — Barack Obama
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
Iceland is fascinating; really an amazing place to visit, and great for a film to go there. — Russell Crowe
Your map of Africa is really quite nice. But my map of Africa lies in Europe. Here is Russia, and here... is France, and we're in the middle - that's my map of Africa. — Otto von Bismarck
Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger. — Mario Puzo
A good default, like Portugal or Greece, would be very good for the private equity business. — David Bonderman
Location: Amsterdam, Where Fire Is Called "Vlam — Kristin Cashore
O to be in finland/ now that russia's here) — E. E. cummings
It is positive that the change in Finland means a rush in the elections and not in the streets. — Tarja Halonen
Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in? — David Attenborough
My husband is from Finland, so every so often I'll throw a Scandinavian-themed party. — Sarah Rafferty
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Sweden Quotes
Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival? — Theodore Bikel
The Baltic Sea is becoming more and more polluted. Not everybody living near the shore of the Baltic Sea is protecting it. It is the water of life for countries like Finland and Sweden. — Harri Holkeri
Who came up with ethno-nationalism? Is swedes caring about Sweden ethno-nationalism? FU! You know, people have a right to be in their country without somebody saying Oh, that's just blood and soil like from the nazis. — Eric Weinstein
Let's just say, I went to Sweden for a reason, to make music. — Logan Paul
I made the key discovery for CRISPR there, while living in my scientific monastery in northern Sweden. At the same time, I was very interested in detective stories, searching for enigmas. — Emmanuelle Charpentier
America's health care system is second only to Japan, Canada, Sweden, Great Britain, well ... all of Europe. But you can thank your lucky starts we don't live in Paraguay! — Matt Groening
I will never be able to go back to Sweden without knowing inside myself that I'd done all a man could do to save as many Jews as possible — Raoul Wallenberg
Sweden is the Saudi Arabia of feminism. — Julian Assange
Give me snuff, whiskey, and Swedes, and I will build a railroad to hell. — James J. Hill
I love Sweden. In Sweden, the women are just so hot. Their vibe is so amazing. You feel like every girl out there was genetically altered to just be hot. I did not see one ugly woman out there, it was just a line of continuously hot girls. — Kid Cudi
Norway Quotes
Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up. — Herman Melville
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
I want to travel. Maybe I'll end up living in Norway, making cakes. — Eva Green
What I love most about Norway is you ladies. Back home I'm used to fat and hairy women journalists. — Diego Maradona
We have to find compromises. That's the way it is in Norway. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself. — Ike Turner
November always seemed to me the Norway of the year. — Emily Dickinson
I am living in Norway, where I am under the care of the best cancer doctor in Norway and I can be closer to my family. — Grete Waitz
I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere. — Adolf Galland
We have a high standard of living. ... In Norway, we've tripled our income since 1970. In the rest of western Europe, income has merely doubled. — Jens Stoltenberg
Finland had a civil war less than 100 years ago, just like in Ireland. If you look at the history of newly independent nations, civil war is almost every time present, even in the United States. — Harri Holkeri
The Finland of the 21st century can thrive only if women of learning - in common with their male counterparts - are guaranteed the opportunity to use their creative potential to the full. — Tarja Halonen
In Finland we have equal political rights for women and men. We do not regard ourselves according to sex. — Harri Holkeri
He saved the production a tremendous amount. Now they did the scene where Omar is on the horse and he's in the deep snow, they went to Finland to do that. That scene they went to Finland for a week. I wasn't around then. — Rod Steiger
Eventually, in '84, we made a film for a little over a million dollars - with American actors that was shot in English - that was shown in Finland A little action film called Born American. — Renny Harlin
Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources. — Tarja Halonen
I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god. — Ville Valo
Correlations are not explanations and besides, they can be as spurious as the high correlation in Finland between foxes killed and divorces. — Gunnar Myrdal
You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland. — Jacques Chirac
Why did Finland join NATO? It was senseless. We didn’t have troops there, nor systems of destruction - but now we will. — Vladimir Putin
My favourite country is Finland because once you get to a certain point, you can drive for hours without seeing a single person. I love peace and quiet - something I don't get very often. — Christopher Lee
Finland has produced so many brilliant distance runners because back home it costs $2.50 a gallon for gas. — Esa Tikkanen
To fall asleep in your embrace,Land of our dreams, what bliss,O you our cradle, you our grave,You the new hope we ever crave,Peninsula so beautiful,Finland for aye our all! — Aleksis Kivi
The reason why Nokia has been built in Finland is simply because Finland was very far behind in terms of infrastructure, so it was relatively easy to implement new technology. — Maurice Levy
If you go to Norway, Finland, Russia or Australia, youll see Xerox or Fuji-Xerox people, not just the name on the door. We have human beings who live and work and serve customers everywhere around the globe. — Ursula Burns
America is a noisy culture, unlike, say, Finland, which values silence. Individualism, dominant in the U.S. and Germany, promotes the direct, fast-paced style of communication associated with extraversion. Collectivistic societies, such as those in East Asia, value privacy and restraint, qualities more characteristic of introverts. — Laurie Helgoe
The 20th century peatlands ditching in Finland was the worst human environmental destruction action in Europe. — Pentti Linkola
(Finland is a famously introverted nation. Finnish joke: How can you tell if a Finn likes you? He's staring at your shoes instead of his own.) — Susan Cain
Contemporary nations such as Sweden, Norway, and Finland, where women are half of the national legislatures, have more caring policies, less violence, and more environmentally sustainable policies. These are connections we must pay attention to if we are to build a better future for us all. — Riane Eisler
In Finland, within very broad government guidelines, teachers create their own curricula together across schools in every community and district. They don't confine collaboration to their own individual schools and to just implementing other people's ideas. — Andy Hargreaves
The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can't fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar. — Groucho Marx
We love and lose in China,
we weep on England's moors,
and laugh and moan in Guinea,
and thrive on Spanish shores.
We seek success in Finland,
are born and die in Maine.
In minor ways we differ,
in major we're the same. — Maya Angelou
When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France. — Kaija Saariaho
Was it a good idea to spend taxpayer dollars on electric cars in Finland, or on windmills in China? Was it a good idea to borrow all this money from countries like China and spend it on all these various different interest groups? — Paul Ryan
Females avoid conflict. They are afraid of violence. The males, on the other hand, are less averse to strife. But once conflict breaks out, the males are much better at reconciling. In a study done in Finland, children who had quarreled were asked how much longer they intended to be angry at one another. The boys proudly said: "Oh, at least one or two days." The girls said "forever". — Frans de Waal
Finnish forests: Let us remind the satellite pictures of the 1970's winter in which the old forest appeared black and young forest and cut downs white. Already then the Finnish borders were like drawn on the map: White Finland between black Karelian and black Sweden. Finnish Forest Research Institute hicced up some time and then decided that the pictures are fake. — Pentti Linkola
People in Finland have also adopted me because of my dad, and that's great, but it's the one language I can't speak. — Nico
When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. That's just the way it was. — Teemu Selanne
Finland is a rich country. What have they got? They got Nokia phones and plywood. How'd they get so rich? Because they're free. — P. J. O'Rourke
A part of society in our countries would still prefer an authoritarian regime today. These are people with the mentality of Homo sovieticus. But they also exist in France - just think of Le Pen - and even in Finland and Sweden. — Adam Michnik
I think one big reason why Sweden might have a good reputation around the world is that if you look at Norway or Denmark or Finland, any of the Scandinavian countries, they all seem less interested in being a part of the larger world, where Sweden has always tried to reach out, whether it's with Volvos, Saabs, H&Ms, music, clothes. — Johan Renck
There's so many ways in which Canada and America are inextricably connected politically, economically, socially. There's no stepping away. But at the same time, we don't have a say. Canada is a different country. Sometimes I think of it as Finland in the Soviet era. We're totally free, but we're totally free to agree, basically. If we disagree too heartily or over too sensitive an issue, then we pay a price for that. — Bruce Cockburn
I attended a lecture by a gray-haired old man from Finland, who later I discovered was the architect Alvar Aalto. I was very moved. I wasn't interested in architecture, but it was a moving thing I've never forgotten. — Frank Gehry
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