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The Dutch are a very practical people. -- Famke Janssen
To play Holland, you have to play the Dutch. -- Ruud Gullit
An Englishman will fairly drink as much As will maintain two families of Dutch. -- Daniel Defoe
Actually, my cd was released in 1985, in return for two German missionaries and a Dutch urologist. -- Emo Philips
Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town. -- James Weldon Johnson
In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content, So we clap on Dutch bottoms just twenty per cent. -- George Canning
Dutch painting: daily life is enough. -- Mason Cooley
There's nothing Dutch about my architecture. -- Rem Koolhaas
The Dutch change positions quicker than you can make a cup of coffee. -- Paolo Rossi
The major concrete achievement of the women's movement of the 1970's was the Dutch treat. -- Nora Ephron
I wanted to be the Dutch Bruce Jenner - that was my goal. He was my hero. -- Bas Rutten
I got into house music thanks to Dutch master mixer Ben Liebrand and my friends at school. -- Armin van Buuren
My friend, the Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, was murdered in 2004 for having been insufficiently reverent toward Islam. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
When I was 5, my mother threw a party, and a friend and I wrote and performed a play called The Dutch Doll. -- Mira Sorvino
I'm half-Irish, half-Dutch, and I was born in Belgium. If I was a dog, I'd be in a hell of a mess! -- Audrey Hepburn
When I was a teenager, my idol was the Dutch footballer Johan Cruyff. He's the only person I've ever asked for an autograph. -- Ferran Adria
Dance music is so interchangeable. There's not a lot of face to it. It's a bunch of Dutch DJs with the same haircut. -- Diplo
The Dutch customs once thought my pictures were photos. Where on earth did they think I could have photographed my subjects? In Hell, perhaps? -- H. R. Giger
The British Empire passed quickly and with less humiliation than its French and Dutch counterparts, but decades later, the vicious politics of partition still seems to define India and Pakistan. -- Pankaj Mishra
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 name, very common in the Netherlands. -- Willem Dafoe
The secondary attack was made against The Hague. Its aim was to get a hold upon the Dutch capital, and in particular to capture the Government offices and the Service headquarters. -- Kurt Student
I had the luck that my parents educated me in three languages. With my mother I spoke Dutch, with my father Italian, and in the school I learned German. But my host language is Italian. -- Michelle Hunziker
Bulls don't read. Bears read financial history. As markets fall to bits, the bears dust off the Dutch tulip mania of 1637, the Banque Royale of 1719-20, the railway speculation of the 1840s, the great crash of 1929. -- James Buchan
All families had their special Christmas food. Ours was called Dutch Bread, made from a dough halfway between bread and cake, stuffed with citron and every sort of nut from the farm - hazel, black walnut, hickory, butternut. -- Paul Engle
I know that I am very popular in Holland, in fact I have visited Amsterdam several times to publicize my books. I have a great publisher in Holland and they have published all of my books in Dutch. -- Jackie Collins
My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic. -- Tyler Florence
You probably have to have redundant levee systems with canals in between them, like the Dutch have, to make sure that incoming water is channeled off to areas where you deal with it rather than have it drown you. -- Billy Tauzin
And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam. -- Julie Burchill
Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons. -- John French Sloan
Once you get to the Enlightenment, the way that powers get to be hyperpowers isn't just by conquest. It's through commerce and innovation. Societies like the Dutch Republic and the United States used tolerance to become a magnet for enterprising immigrants. -- Amy Chua
These are some of the things for which we believe the American people owe no little gratitude to the Dutch; and these are the things for which today, speaking in the name of the American people, we venture to express their heartfelt thanks. -- Seth Low
Many people suggest using mathematics to talk to the aliens, and Dutch computer scientist Alexander Ollongren has developed an entire language (Lincos) based on this idea. But my personal opinion is that mathematics may be a hard way to describe ideas like love or democracy. -- Seth Shostak
What we have seen of recent American action in the Pacific, the bombing of Tokyo and the engagements in the Coral Sea, off Midway Island and at Dutch Harbour, has been sufficient indication that America is beginning to discharge her supremely important duty in the Pacific. -- Chiang Kai-shek
Much of the Netherlands lies considerably below sea level, as you well know. Through the process of building dikes to wall out the salty sea and through pumping the water into canals, the country of the ingenious, resourceful, and doughty Dutch has literally been born of the sea. -- Joseph B. Wirthlin
I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that "it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams." -- Abraham Lincoln
The Dutch look like a huge jar of marmalade. -- Barry Davies
To play Holland, you've got to play the Dutch -- Ruud Gullit
But the Dutch speak four languages and smoke marijuana. -- Eddie Izzard
A donkey appears to me like a horse translated into Dutch. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
I know I've got a lock on the Dutch Hall of Fame. -- Bert Blyleven
You know the Dutch, they're always a bit funny... some of them. -- Franz Beckenbauer
I believe neither the French nor the Dutch really rejected the constitutional treaty. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
Dutch is not so much a language as an ailment of the throat. -- John Green
I never show the back of my tongue. That is a Dutch expression. -- Ben van Berkel
This indigested vomit of the Sea,Fell to the Dutch by Just Propriety. -- Andrew Marvell
Whether you like it or not - I want to close the Dutch borders. -- Geert Wilders
Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese. -- Eoin Colfer
Days of Dutch courage, just three French letters, and a German sense of humour. -- Elvis Costello
Dance music is one of the biggest export products in the Dutch economy these days. -- Eddy de Clercq
My wife is Dutch and very independent. She never wanted or needed to be married. -- Julio Iglesias
The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch -- Benjamin Franklin
Economics is like the Dutch language - I'm told it makes sense, but I have my doubts. -- John Oliver
Paradise endangered: garden snakes and mice are appearing in the shadowy corners of Dutch Old Master paintings. -- Mason Cooley
We Dutch, we like to have an opinion, a strong opinion. We think we know everything better. -- Ruud Gullit
I like this world. I like drinking champagne. I like not smoking. I like Dutch people speaking Dutch. -- John Green
[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug. -- Mark Twain
For our first date we went Dutch. We would have gone another nationality, but they are the tallest. -- Jarod Kintz
RITUALISM, n. A Dutch Garden of God where He may walk in rectilinear freedom, keeping off the grass. -- Ambrose Bierce
The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it. -- Richard Brookhiser
The rise of the Dutch Republic must ever be regarded as one of the leading events of modern times. -- John Lothrop Motley
The Dutch and the Norwegians, they are known for dikes and for cleaning up water and for dealing with spills. -- Sarah Palin
The Dutch and the English, former competitors for world dominance, taught me the wisdom of waiting as well as withholding. -- Lynne Tillman
There's only two things I hate in this world. People who are intolerant of other people's cultures and the Dutch. -- Michael Caine
Willem tsk-tsks. "You Americans are so violent. I'm Dutch. The worst I will do is run her over with a bicycle. -- Gayle Forman
I've signed a contract with the Dutch national team until 2006. So I can win the World Cup not once but twice. -- Louis van Gaal
Is it O.K. that I speak in English? The only thing I know in Dutch is how to order pot. -- Eddie Vedder
The pilgrims were kicked out of England, quarreled with the Dutch, alienated the Indians, and had an evil reputation among the turkeys. -- Dave Beard
Holland is very good at avant garde, probably due to the Dutch character. Good at design. Experimentation sometimes works here very well. -- Eddy de Clercq
This will end the mythology of the dumb little Dutch boy with his stupid finger in the dike to save his country -- Louis van Gesteren
If I could just stay alive for a week, I'd know the unwritten secrets of Anna's mom and the Dutch Tulip Guy. -- John Green
Unfortunately, Childermass's French was so strongly accented by his native Yorkshire that Minervois did not understand and asked Strange if Childermass was Dutch. -- Susanna Clarke
In Europe, Henk Tennekes was dismissed as research director of the Royal Dutch Meteorological Society after questioning the scientific underpinnings of global warming. -- Richard Lindzen
I've heard stories about authors filled with this kind of Lotto-winner hubris. I'm a Dutch boy from the Midwest. We don't have hubris. -- Chris Van Allsburg
If you were to ask me to speak Swedish or Dutch or German, I have no idea if I could pull that off! -- Marisol Nichols
Occasionally, if I am very confident in the establishment, I'll risk an egg salad on Dutch crunch, but I must be very confident indeed. -- Gail Carriger
I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine. -- Pete Townshend
The Dutch film industry is a pretty small community, so within Holland, I think most actors know each other and have worked with each other. -- Michiel Huisman
The Dutch have a can-do mentality, anything is possible. As long as you pay for it. It is very capitalist. Quite American in a way. -- Eddy de Clercq
Researchers who studied a thousand Dutch vacationers concluded that by far the greatest amount of happiness extracted from the vacation is derived from the anticipation period... -- Daniel Kahneman
Others said May was best, that sweet green time when lilacs bloomed and gardens along Main Street were filled with sugary pink peonies and Dutch tulips. -- Alice Hoffman
In Indonesian, the word isn't translating as "gangster." It's "preman", which comes from the Dutch "prÃ©man", which of course the thing that's "freeman" in English. -- Joshua Oppenheimer
Dutch in my ear, Olde E in my palm, I Freddy Krueger your face, Michael Myers your moms. You botherin mine? That's when I'm sparkin the nine. -- Sean Price
Apparently the Dutch now prided themselves on being better at queues than the English, which was absurd, because standing cheerfully in line was the English national sport. -- Orson Scott Card
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I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have to score the third one first. -- Angus Loughran
Scoring two goals at against Wembley against a Dutch team that was supposed to rip us apart and ripping them apart - it doesn't get any better than that. -- Teddy Sheringham
We cannot forget that our flag received its first foreign salute from a Dutch officer, nor that the Province of Friesland gave to our independence its first formal recognition. -- Seth Low
If [Moroccans born in Holland] commit serious crimes - I believe we should strip them indeed of the Dutch nationality and send them back to Morocco as Morocco does. -- Geert Wilders
The Yankee: In acuteness and perseverance, he resembles the Scotch. In frugal neatness, he resembles the Dutch. But in truth, a Yankee is nothing else on earth but himself. -- Frances Trollope
Bernie Ebbers and Ken Lay were caricatures - they were easy to spot. They were almost psychopaths. But it's much harder to spot problems at companies like Royal Dutch [Shell]. -- Charlie Munger
When somebody has dual citizenship and commits a crime, his Dutch passport should be revoked and he should be deported to the other country, even if he was born here. -- Geert Wilders
How will the Tower of Babel be undone? How will we understand each other in Heaven? Will we all speak English or Dutch or Latin? No, we will speak music. -- Peter Kreeft
I knew of like - I remember, for most of my life, I grew up, and "Knight Rider" was, you know - David Hasselhoff was a Dutch character in my world. -- Trevor Noah
After the Dutch left Indonesia, after the Indonesians got loose in 1945, the freemen were not as widely used, but then they went through a real Renaissance where military dictatorship took over. -- Joshua Oppenheimer
What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and Swedes. From this promiscuous breed, that race, now called Americans, have arisen. -- J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
I remember World Cups in 1982 and 1986 when we weren't there and we'd support Belgium or Denmark, .. They had some players who played in Holland and they were a bit like the Dutch. -- Simon Kuper
Let us work toward greater cooperation with all Caribbean Countries, whether we speak English, Dutch, French or Spanish, whether we are independent or not, and whether we be island or continental territories. -- Said Musa
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When you hear the music of these celebrated Dutch superstar-DJs nowadays... my God, I wouldn't even feed their music to my dog. I don't consider that to be my sort of dance music. -- Eddy de Clercq
Although Cronkite had once crash landed in a Dutch potato field under enemy fire, he chose instead to focus on celebrating the liberation of the Netherlands at the hands of the Free Dutch. -- Douglas Brinkley
It is the middle of December now, and we are about to travel to Switzerland - where we plan to ski a little, relax a little, and shoot a Dutch politician a little. -- Hugh Laurie
The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch. -- Albert Bushnell Hart
When John Quincy Adams in the Netherlands was placed with elementary students and belittled because he did not speak Dutch, either the author or John Adams accuses school authorities of "littleness of soul". -- Paul C. Nagel
The Indonesian nationalists, mainly Javanese, who threw the Dutch out - in 1949, after a four-year struggle - were keen to preserve their inheritance and emulated the coercion, deceit, and bribery of the colonial rulers. -- Pankaj Mishra
In Indonesia, where I am from, the Dutch-imposed Civil Code dating back to the colonial 1870s prevailed until the 1974 Law on Marriage granted married women greater rights, including the ability to open individual bank accounts. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
Though [Charles Guignebert] could not accept either the Christ myth theory, which held that no historical Jesus existed, or the Dutch Radical denial that Paul authored any of the epistles, Guignebert took both quite seriously. -- Robert M. Price
And it'd be very hard to make up something as strange as the Dutch tulipmania in the seventeenth century, for example. Or the mysterious case of Thomas Clapper. Or the entire civic history of Seattle, Washington. -- Stephen Briggs
A single decision by the chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell has a greater impact on the health of the planet than all the coffee-ground-composting, organic-cotton-wearing ecofreaks gathering in Washington D.C., for Earth Day festivities this weekend. -- Sharon Begley
I do a real analysis of who actually owns things - itâ??s the Britishâ?¦the Dutchâ?¦then itâ??s the Arabsâ?¦then itâ??s the Frenchâ?¦then itâ??s the Jewsâ?¦and then, on down the line. -- Alex Jones
We have an enormous support within the Dutch public. One million people voted for my party.If we would've been extreme, we would've got 0.01 per cent of the vote. We got more than 10 per cent of the vote. -- Geert Wilders
And besides, I'm so in Dutch with my neighbors here that I thought that was better than getting them all upset with what might be a fake bomb scare where they'd have to clear out the whole neighborhood. -- Ernst Zundel
We have very pretty Dutch gardens, so called, in America, but their chief claim to being Dutch is that they are set with bulbs, and have Delft or other earthen pots or boxes for formal plants or shrubs. -- Alice Morse Earle
I was very lucky. I don't know German, or Dutch, or Chinese, or Thai. I don't know them, so I can't judge, so I have to go on the word of the publisher that it's a good translation. -- Sandra Cisneros
Even in good families a bad apple can begin an avalanche of troubles,' Dutch said as he sat back in his well-seasoned armchair, lighting his curved rustic pipe. From Book I, In Blood There is No Honor" -- Judith Victoria Douglas
Prosperity too often has the same effect on a Christian that a calm at sea has on a Dutch mariner; who frequently, it is said, in those circumstances, ties up the rudder, gets drunk, and goes to sleep. -- William Cornelius Van Horne
In April 2006, a Dutch court ordered that I leave my safe-home that I was renting from the State. The judge concluded that my neighbors had a right to argue that they felt unsafe because of my presence in the building. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language." -- Anthony Geary
Never deny the babies their Christmas! It is the shining seal set upon, a year of happiness. Let them believe in Santa Claus, or St. Nicholas; or Kriss Kringle, or whatever name the jolly Dutch saint bears in your religion. -- Mary Virginia Terhune
Among top grandmasters the Dutch is a rare defense, which is good reason to play it! It has not been studied very deeply by many opponents, and theory, based on a small number of 'reliable' games, must be rather unreliable. -- Bent Larsen
People say 'Why would you learn Dutch? Nobody speaks it. Why not French?' Even the Dutch say that to me! I say because I want to live here, I think it's only common courtesy that I speak the language. -- Anthony Geary

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