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I don't know what the word is in Austrian. -- Barack Obama
Austrian soldiers are like horses: brave but easily frightened. -- Franz Grillparzer
A Bavarian is half-way between an Austrian and a human being. -- Otto von Bismarck
Although I'm Australian, I find myself much more in sympathy with the Austrian version! -- David Chalmers
The more consistently Austrian School an economist is, the better a writer he will be. -- Murray Rothbard
I'm not into the whole Austrian type, strongly libertarian economics. I like more mainstream economics -- Robert Sarvis
I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe. -- Heinz Fischer
The quality of the thought differences the Egyptian and the Roman, the Austrian and the American. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sygmnd was a poor Austrian who'd lost all the vowels in his name in a boating accident. -- Woody Allen
If I would have listened to the naysayers, I would still be in the Austrian Alps yodeling. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Raymond Chandler I love a lot, and the Austrian writer Thomas Bernhard. I really love his voice. -- Steve Toltz
The assertion that it is the intention of the German Reich to coerce the Austrian State is absurd! -- Adolf Hitler
The Austrians are brilliant people. They made the world believe that Hitler was a German and Beethoven an Austrian. -- Billy Wilder
My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist. -- Walter Kohn
The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath. -- William Shatner
I never dreamed I would receive the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, mostly because my style is so typically Austrian. -- Tina Fey
In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going That's weird. -- Robin Williams
I am thrice homeless, as a bohemian, as an Austrian, and all over the world, you guessed it right I am Jewish -- Gustav Mahler
Critics say Arnold has no previous government experience, but advisers say he's clearly the most qualified Austrian, ex-Mr. Universe in the race. -- Craig Kilborn
It's great to be with you gun-toting, 10ther, pro-life, Austrian-economics, home-schooling, redoubt-living, Constitutionalist patriots this evening. I think that covers the SPLC's list. -- Matt Shea
If a German or an Austrian, a Greek or a Bashibazouk, had composed Gerontius, the whole world would have by now admitted its qualities. -- Neville Cardus
We wanted to bring the political situation in Austria on stage. Naturally we could not do that without pointing to Austrian's northern neighbor Germany. -- Leon Askin
Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill. -- Winston Churchill
I am thrice homeless, as a native of Bohemia in Austria, as an Austrian among Germans, and as a Jew throughout the world. Everywhere an intruder, never welcomed. -- Gustav Mahler
I finished my studies in England, I opened my studio in London, and the first one-man exhibit I had on Bond Street, which was opened by the Austrian ambassador. -- Felix de Weldon
I don't think that neutrality is an obstacle to Austria's successful integration into European and world structures... but this is a question that the Austrian people themselves must decide -- Vladimir Putin
Thirty-six years after coming to America, the man once known by fellow bodyÂbuilders as the Austrian Oak was elected governor of California, the seventh largest economy in the world. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
My speaking style was criticised by no less an authority than Arnold Schwarzenegger. It was a low moment, my friends, to have my rhetorical skills denounced by a monosyllabic Austrian cyborg. -- Boris Johnson
Chanel is composed of only a few elements, white camellias, quilted bags and Austrian doorman's jackets, pearls, chains, shoes with black toes. I use these elements like notes to play with. -- Karl Lagerfeld
If I remain healthy, I can win more races, but I don't think so much about setting new records. I'm already proud to have become the leading Austrian World Cup racer. -- Hermann Maier
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused -- Fritz Kreisler
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view. -- Walter Kohn
IN trying to recall my impressions during my short war duty as an officer in the Austrian Army, I find that my recollections of this period are very uneven and confused. -- Fritz Kreisler
[Adolf Hitler] hardly ever called [Eva Braun] "Eva." He had many Austrian diminutives for her. He called her "Evi" quite often as well as Schatzerl, Evchen, as well as other Austrian expressions. -- Gretl Braun
The more the linguistic Babel corroded and disorganized parliament, the closer drew the inevitable hour of the disintegration of this Babylonian Empire, and with it the hour of freedom for my German-Austrian people. -- Adolf Hitler
European government is a clear expression I still use, you need time, but step by step, as in the Austrian case, the European Commission takes a political decision and behaves like a growing government. -- Romano Prodi
I do not have voice for Russian music; I cannot be cute little peasant like in operas of Glinka or Rimsky-Korsakov. I am now never in Russia; I am Austrian citizen. But definitely I am Latin! -- Anna Netrebko
Half a century ago, the Austrian psychiatrist Viktor Frankl wrote that happiness cannot be attained by wanting to be happy - it must come as the unintended consequence of working for a goal greater than oneself. -- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
When I was a child, all I wanted was to enter the Austrian team and to compete on the World Cup tour. I had to fight hard to reach this. I wanted badly to win each race. -- Hermann Maier
There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right. -- Julian Fellowes
The home front is always underrated by Generals in the field. And yet that is where the Great War was won and lost. The Russian, Bulgarian, Austrian and German home fronts fell to pieces before their armies collapsed. -- David Lloyd George
Sometimes someone will tell me about an author I've never heard of before and that will send me to that person. That's how I discovered Thomas Bernhard, an Austrian novelist whose novels tend to be one long rant. -- Stephen Dobyns
[Adolf Hitler] was Austrian, so he knew how to play that role [being capable of apologizing]. In fact, it wasn't playacting, it was just part of who he was. He hated to see women cry or women upset. -- Gretl Braun
When my first film 'The Seventh Continent' was presented here 12 years ago, non-Austrian spectators would come up to me and say, 'Is Austria that terrible?', whereas for me it wasn't about Austria but about highly industrialised cultures everywhere. -- Michael Haneke
In effect, I was asking that if Russia mobilized against Austria, the German Government, who had been supporting the Austrian demand on Serbia, should ask Austria to consider some modification of her demands, under the threat of Russian mobilization. -- Edward Grey
My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career. -- Meaghan Rath
The Austrian School came into existence when a bunch of Viennese rent-gouging landlords didn't want rent control on the rents they could gouge out of their tenants in old Vienna, so they hired a bunch of scribblers - and that's the Austrian School. -- Webster Tarpley
I have Jewish friends. I have Middle Eastern friends. I have Spanish and Italian and British and Scottish and German friends and Austrian friends, and guess what? They all deal with homophobia. It's an earthling epidemic; it's not isolated in the black community. -- Jussie Smollett
As a child in Sydney, my German Mum and my Austrian Dad would spontaneously tell me stories about what they saw and what they did as children. It was like a piece of Europe coming into our house... Those stories led me to my writing. -- Markus Zusak
Repeal the entire Banking Act of 1933, and Austrian School economists will cheer, especially if the current system were replaced by a 100%-reserve competitive banking with no central bank. That banking reform would give us a sound money system, meaning no more business cycle, bailouts, or inflation. -- Llewellyn Rockwell
Austrian public-opinion pollsters recently reported that those held in highest esteem by most of the people interviewed are neither the great artists nor the great scientists, neither the great statesmen nor the great sport figures, but those who master a hard lot with their heads held high. -- Viktor E. Frankl

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