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Perhaps Europeans are a bit more skeptic whereas Americans are more believers. -- Isabelle Huppert
We don't mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans. -- Robert Mugabe
The next challenge for Christianity is to remind Europeans that we are called to seek the truth. -- Timothy Radcliffe
Europeans know the importance of the Resistance; it has been the shining example of the modern conscience. -- Salvatore Quasimodo
America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution. -- Francis Parkman
China protects the Chinese, America protects the Americans, I don't see why Europe should not protect the Europeans. -- Dominique de Villepin
We did not fight the Americans or the Europeans. We fight only the Israeli enemy that took our homes and homeland. -- Ahmed Yassin
We all know the Indians were colonized by the Europeans, but every colonized Indian has been colonized by the Indian reaction to colonization. -- Sherman Alexie
Democrats couldn't care less if people in Indiana hate them. But if Europeans curl their lips, liberals can't look at themselves in the mirror. -- Ann Coulter
Europeans are much more serious than we are in America because they think that a good place to discuss intellectual matters is a beer party. -- Richard P. Feynman
Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls. -- Barbara Amiel
What can the Church do? If she stands by her moral teaching, then she will be seen as standing in judgement over a vast percentage of Europeans. -- Timothy Radcliffe
The euro currency both presupposes and promotes a fiction - that 'Europe' has somehow become, against the wishes of most Europeans, a political rather than a merely geographic expression. -- George Will
When the early Europeans first met Africans, at the crossroads of history, it was a respectful meeting and the Africans were not slaves. Their nations were old before Europe was born. -- John Henrik Clarke
And so by the fifteenth century, on October 8, the Europeans were looking for a new place to try to get to, and they came up with a new concept: the West. -- Dave Barry
Infectious diseases introduced with Europeans, like smallpox and measles, spread from one Indian tribe to another, far in advance of Europeans themselves, and killed an estimated 95% of the New World's Indian population. -- Jared Diamond
The Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor led to many very good things. If you follow the trail, it led to kicking Europeans out of Asia - that saved tens of millions of lives in India alone. -- Noam Chomsky
When Europeans first came to Africa, they considered the architecture very disorganized and thus primitive. It never occurred to them that the Africans might have been using a form of mathematics that they hadn't even discovered yet. -- Ron Eglash
The great European dream was to diminish militant nationalism. We would all be happy Europeans together. But we are going to see the old monster of militant nationalism being awoken when people realise how little control their politicians have. -- Antony Beevor
The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans. -- John Henrik Clarke
There is a profound hypocrisy - and deep historical ignorance - when Europeans complain about the problems posed by the ethnic and religious minorities in their midst, for that is exactly what European colonial rule meant for peoples around the world. -- Martin Jacques
Many of the Europeans who want Israel to go away don't even know why they do. Nearly a third of those interviewed concede they have no idea what the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is all about. It's enough to know that Israelis are Jews. -- Suzanne Fields
I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions? -- Joni Mitchell
North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best. -- Michael Kors
Europeans are quarrelsome. -- Quentin Crisp
I've busted a million Europeans -- Phil Hellmuth
I enjoy bathing, as many Europeans don't. -- Craig Ferguson
UKIP is natural party for Eastern Europeans -- Przemek Skwirczynski
Western Europeans are not having any babies. -- John Rhys-Davies
Those Europeans, they know how to negotiate. -- Donyell Marshall
A war between Europeans is a civil war. -- Victor Hugo
Europeans don't seem to have the groupie mentality. -- Kid Rock
Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time. -- Quentin Crisp
We must go back to teach Europeans to love Europe. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
British actors behave like Europeans; they are also extremely well trained. -- Jean-Jacques Annaud
Negroes and Southern Europeans are mentally inferior to native born Americans. -- Margaret Sanger
It's no secret that Europeans and Americans win most Nobel prizes. -- Max Fisher
I am disgusted by the anti-Semitism of many Italians, of many Europeans. -- Oriana Fallaci
Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans. -- Nelson Mandela
I am going to leave the future of Europe to the Europeans. -- Donald Rumsfeld
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk. -- William James
Most Europeans have no idea how wild life can be in north America. -- Tom G. Palmer
Europeans call it socialism, Americans call it welfare, and Barack Obama calls it change. -- Douglas Holtz-Eakin
The Europeans must finally understand the incredible shock triggered by the attacks of September 11. -- Brent Scowcroft
Europeans not only colonized most of the world, they colonized information about the world. -- John Henrik Clarke
Americans understand better than the Europeans and the English that any publicity is good. -- Carl Andre
The Americans don't like the American look but the Europeans just eat it up. -- Ashley Hinshaw
There are two kinds of Europeans: The smart ones, and those who stayed behind. -- H. L. Mencken
I think the vetting we have for refugees is vastly better than the Europeans have. -- Michael Leiter
The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending. -- Francois Fillon
Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies. -- Asia Argento
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans. -- Edmund Phelps
We need to realise we are Europeans before we belong to a region or a Nation. -- Janne Teller
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Europeans have a different take [on nudity] than American actors do. They're not quite as hung up. -- Dennis Haysbert
Jay-Z and Kanye West are to authentic rap culture what diseased rates were to 14th century Europeans -- Dean Cavanagh
This thing is for the game of golf, yeah, but trust me, the Europeans don't have that mentality. -- Payne Stewart
I was a great friend of the Europeans. I grew up in Wiesbaden. I love Germany very much. -- Tyler Drumheller
We should never forget that Hollywood was built by Europeans, and the old Jewish boys from Eastern Europe. -- Maximilian Schell
If Iraq were to descend into chaos, the Europeans would feel the effects just as much as we would. -- Brent Scowcroft
The Europeans who went to Africa came back with â??modern' art. What is more African than a Picasso? -- Duke Ellington
If you find life on Europa [Jupiter's moon], like, what would you call it? Would it be, like, Europeans? -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Europeans say they are proud of their social fabric, of strong rights for workers and the weak in society. -- David Korten
I think my work is very American because I'm American. But I found that Europeans like uncertainty and doubt. -- Carl Andre
Europeans condemned Chinese foot binding, but any society that had invented the corset had a lot to answer for. -- Mary Jo Putney
Americans are from Mars, Europeans are from Venus: they agree on little and understand each other less and less. -- Robert Kagan
(on asparagus) Europeans of the Renaissance swore by it as an aphrodisiac, and the church banned it from nunneries. -- Barbara Kingsolver
We must go beyond being reactive and defensive. As Europeans we must regain our self-confidence and realize our own strengths. -- Donald Tusk
Self-preservation's a man's first duty. And natives don't mind dying, you know. They don't feel about it as Europeans do. -- Agatha Christie
The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans. -- Irakli Okruashvili
Because of my language and the pantomime with which most Europeans accompany their speech, I was catalogued as a heavy. -- Bela Lugosi
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Well-meaning Europeans sometimes argue that unlike the U.S., their countries are traditionally 'homogeneous' and have little experience with immigration. -- Noah Feldman
I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset. -- Jean-Claude Juncker
American businessmen have taken advantage of the opportunities which existed in Europe and Europeans seem not to have been aware of. -- Emilio Pucci
Many Europeans are concerned that stronger sanctions are a slippery slope toward war unless the U.S. is at the table. -- Dennis Ross
You have one big mythology in your favor: Everyone believes that you Europeans are impeccable. But I know you are jerks. -- Fernando Flores
It's easier for Europeans to give money to a movie that says a blow job is what brought down American democracy. -- Julie Delpy
We Poles are and will remain convinced Europeans. For us, Europe is a community of the diversity of nations. No mishmash. -- Jaroslaw Kaczynski
The people who are opposing the policy of apartheid have not the courage of their convictions. They do not marry non-Europeans. -- P. W. Botha
Since the intervention in Afghanistan, we suddenly began to notice when, in political discussions, we found ourselves only among Europeans or Israelis. -- Jurgen Habermas
The United States, for a French citizen, is a friend, an ally, to whom we owe, along with most Europeans, our freedom. -- Jean-Pierre Raffarin
Russians consider themselves civilized Europeans, but have to endure the humiliation of daily encounters with officials that belong in a squalid dictatorship. -- Oliver Bullough
In Tasmania, an island the size of Ireland whose primeval forests astonished 19th-century Europeans, an incomprehensible ecological tragedy is being played out. -- Richard Flanagan
The principal achievement of Europe is peace, which we often forget about as it has become so taken for granted by Europeans. -- Dominique de Villepin
The story of the Amazon is a story that has been told by Europeans, you know, by Germans, by Canadians, by Americans. -- Ciro Guerra
The cold war was an aberration. Note how quickly the Europeans turned on America once 400 hostile divisions were no longer on their borders. -- Bill Vaughan
Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means. -- Ali Larijani
Many Europeans are confused by the terms Roma and Romania. They wonder if it is an ethnicity or a nation of 22 million citizens. -- Traian Basescu
If the Europeans want to intervene, that's their business. But if I were president, I would remove every United States soldier from the Balkan peninsula. -- Pat Buchanan
The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil. -- Alvaro de Vasconcelos
European toilet paper is made from the same material that Americans use for roofing, which is why Europeans tend to remain standing throughout soccer matches. -- Dave Barry
Adding an overarching tier of tyrants the EU to European governments has benefited Europeans as a second hangman enhances the health of a condemned man. -- Ilana Mercer
I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose. -- Randall Jarrell
When Americans talks about Europeans, they are thinking Britain and the rest of Europe. When we [ Britains] talk about Europeans, we talk about everywhere else. -- Steve Coogan
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank. -- Ian Frazier
Europeans used to say Americans were puritanical. Then they discovered that we were not puritans. So now they say that we are obsessed with sex. -- Mary McCarthy
As many Europeans and other people from other countries, I have been led into my present activity by a very specific American gift of trade. -- Emilio Pucci
I was struck by the way Europeans see history as something neatly linear. For me, it's not that; it's not some kind of straight railway. -- Richard Flanagan
We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way. -- Barack Obama
...many of the officials, courtiers, and priests, representing the upper class of Egyptian society but not the royalty, looked strikingly like modern Europeans, especially long-headed ones -- Carleton S. Coon
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude stereotyping. -- Timothy Garton Ash
The refugees flee to protect their families from violence; the Europeans, on the other hand, fear for their jobs that they need to feed their families. -- Jane Goodall
At a time when Europeans already had a long history of violent contact with Native people, Lewis and Clark made most of their journey in peace. -- Joseph Bruchac
When Europeans came upon real ruined cities they refused to believe that they had been built by Africans. Here the past has been distorted and denied. -- Henry Louis Gates
If the EU and its 25 member states make a clever use of all policy instruments, broadband for all Europeans is certainly not out of reach by 2010. -- Viviane Reding
When an American heiress wants to buy a man, she at once crosses the Atlantic. The only really materialistic people I have ever met have been Europeans. -- Mary McCarthy
The Europeans have fallen away from religion and the church while the rest of the world is seemingly more religious. I don't know how to explain it. -- Sally Quinn
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones -- Kathleen Turner
I think Europeans have enough tradition and respect for the experience and body of work of an actress that they don't sell out to the new ones. -- Kathleen Turner
As many as two out of every three Europeans who came to the colonies were debtors on arrival: they paid for their passage by becoming indentured servants. -- Jill Lepore
For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country. -- Julie Delpy
Europeans believe in democracy - or, at least, in republican government - but they have considered the alternatives, and continue to do so, and that scandalizes Americans. -- William Pfaff
This game the Persian Magi did invent, The force of Eastern wisdom to express: From thence to busy Europeans sent, And styled by modern Lombards pensive chess. -- Isaac Asimov
It hinges on oil. Europeans feel they handled the boycott after the Yom Kippur War [1973] very badly. The Arabs need to sell oil; otherwise they cannot live. -- Manfred Gerstenfeld
Over time, Europeans have come to rely on governments to protect them from the rougher facets of private enterprise and to look after them in old age. -- Sri Mulyani Indrawati
The Europeans and Americans residing in the town of Zanzibar are either Government officials, independent merchants, or agents for a few great mercantile houses in Europe and America. -- Henry Morton Stanley
The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game. -- Andrew Bogut
Europeans are familiar with terrorism and violence. We have not experienced a true conflict on our soil in a hundred years, and especially not one that involved 3,000 dead. -- Brent Scowcroft
Muslims stand by their religion entirely. It is a sort of religious absolutism. While Europeans have stopped defending the values of their civilization. They confuse tolerance with relativism. -- Bassam Tibi

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