Best Small Countries Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Israel's a small country but both the audience and programme-makers are very sophisticated.”

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“Norway is a small country, about half the size of Sweden, but it has a very good film climate because they have municipal cinemas, so even in the smallest towns you have a cinema that shows art house films from all over the world.”

World Art Country Shows Film House Half Towns Climate Very Good Size Cinema Smallest Sweden Good Films Norway Small Countries

Author:Stellan Skarsgard

“A small film from a small country, in Arabic with nonprofessionals: It was practically impossible. Just to make it was like a dream to me.”

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Author:Nadine Labaki

“Sweden is a small country and, well, our family's pretty prominent in that world, I guess. And I really didn't like the sound of just being 'the fourth acting Skarsgard.”

World Wells Country Sound Acting Our Family Fourth Just Being Prominent Sweden Small Countries

Author:Bill Skarsgard

“I think as English people, we don't want to be reminded that at one point we ruled three-quarters of the globe, and now we're a very small country that doesn't own three-quarters of the globe.”

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Author:Jamie Bell

“It's true that what you find in New York is something other than America. Only small towns and small countries are self-satisfied; a real capital goes beyond its borders.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“A small country town is not the place in which one would choose to quarrel with a wife; every human being in such places is a spy.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“It is the entire euro zone system which is under threat at the moment, not just a few small countries anymore... Our euro is under threat. The changing situation needs a quick and immediate reaction.”

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Author:Iveta Radicova

“I never thought I'd be in a family that has more people than a small country.”

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Author:Scott Disick

“I got to dislike parties, like Jefferson and Madison. I think they're harmful. But the system is flawed so badly. I like what Plato said, long ago. Democracy is fit only for a small country. Can't survive in a large country.”

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Author:Jack Kevorkian

“Lithuania is a small country, so our contribution would not be that large. We are not afraid of our responsibility. We receive 25 percent of our national budget from the European Union. We understand the value of solidarity.”

Country Values Responsibility Percent Unions Budgets Contribution Not Afraid Solidarity European Union Small Countries Lithuania

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“Switzerland has one of the highest per capita incomes in the world, the strongest currency and the largest financial center for foreign assets. And we're a small country with no natural resources. Switzerland is the world capital of dealing in stolen goods.”

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Author:Jean Ziegler

“France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.”

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Author:Michel Ocelot

“Britain is a very small country with a very large press.”

Country Presses Britain Small Countries

Author:David Hockney

“I have known a great many politicians who have not managed to stay in power for 16 years. I have nevertheless already managed to remain at the helm for 18 years. I still want to achieve a great many things for my country. Experience is not a disadvantage here, especially as the head of government of a small country in a European setting that has become more difficult.”

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Author:Jean-Claude Juncker

“A small country like Georgia has little influence on conflicts that must be resolved at the global level.”

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Author:Bidzina Ivanishvili

“Running a small country and managing a game is almost synonymous.”

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Author:Frank Pearce

“If you belong to a small country that is geopolitically not that important, or strategically not that important, you have no place among nations. Those countries are neglected and left to fend for themselves.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“A small country cannot contend with a great; the few cannot contend with the many; the weak cannot contend with the strong”

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Author:Mencius

“You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it cost the GDP of a small country and that Charlize Theron and the director, Karyn Kusama, are critics' darlings, this could mean but one thing: A stinker. A weapon of mass destruction. A planet-killer. Folks, I'll never understand studios. Aeon Flux is not that terrible.”

“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country.”

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Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“Denmark is a country built on a commercial fleet. That's basically what we have been doing. We're just a small country of islands, and every family has a sailor.”

Has Beens Country Built Islands Sailor Denmark Small Countries

Author:Tobias Lindholm

“When I was very young, Denmark was a very small country, and we still are, but it was then very provincial and everybody knew everybody. Now, we are very much like the rest of the world, especially with the arrival of the internet.”

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Author:Michala Petri

“Obviously, it was a big life change for me and quite a shock to suddenly have these songs I'd written in my bedroom as a far-too-intense teenager all over the airwaves and see my face on buses, especially in a small country like New Zealand, but at the same time it was such a thrill and an honour knowing that my music was reaching people.”

People Country Bigs Faces Song Knowing Written Intense Teenager Life Changing Reaching Shock Honour Bus Bedroom Thrill New Zealand Small Countries

Author:Brooke Fraser

“The biggest budget is the military budget. For what? We're fighting two wars in very small countries that have no nuclear weapons, that have no capabilities to destroy anything. They probably couldn't even get to America.”

Two War Country America Fighting Military Weapons Nuclear Budgets Capability Nuclear Weapons Small Countries Military Budget

Author:Lupe Fiasco

“Take, for example, Lithuania. Do you know, what was its population in the Soviet times? It was 3.4 mln people. It was a small country, a small republic. And what is it now? I have looked though the recent statistics, today the population of this country is 1.4 mln people. Where are the people? More than half of the citizens have left the country.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“The Palestinians have no other land. They are absolutely right about this. The Israeli Jews also have no other land and they are absolutely right about this. It is a tragedy of two peoples claiming the same very small country - very small, about the size of New Jersey. And both of them are right. Both of them have no other homeland as peoples. As individuals, maybe, but not as a people.”

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Author:Amos Oz

“Israel has military capabilities including nuclear weapons, far surpassing any other power in the Middle East, but it's a small country. The rest of the Middle Eastern peoples are Muslim and Israelis are not, so it is hardly in any position to become the leading power.”

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Author:Samuel P. Huntington

“Having grown up far, far away in a small country town in Australia, I was only slightly aware of hip-hop.”

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Author:Baz Luhrmann

“Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us.”

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Author:Barack Obama

“In terms intellectually, [what] shaped my life was the whole Munich thing [the Munich Agreement] that I knew about all my life, in terms of how large powers make decisions that affect small countries, and the unintended consequences of that. The other part is I knew about the Holocaust. l just didn't know that it applied to my family. But that did affect the way I thought about what I was seeing as ethnic cleansing in the Balkans; there's no question about that.”

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Author:Madeleine Albright

“[Tibet] is a small country based on religious principle, religious traditions. It never wanted any conquest.”

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Author:Elie Wiesel

“The small countries of the world are as important as the big nations.”

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Author:Narendra Modi

“Holland is a fairly small country, and in a weird way, somewhat conservative. That might surprise people because it is a very tolerant place, but it's also a somewhat Calvinist country. There isn't much flexibility in changing people's perspectives.”

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Author:Ari Marcopoulos

“If one looks at the map of the world, it's difficult to find Iraq, and one would think it rather easy to subdue such a small country.”

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Author:Vladimir Putin

“And Israel, being a tiny, small country, of course has interest to strengthen - we have interest to strengthen our relations with other countries, mostly countries that were hostile for many, many years.”

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Author:Ariel Sharon

“Poland is not a very large country, but it's also not a small country.”

Country Poland Small Countries

Author:Donald Tusk

“Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.”

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Author:Steven Wright

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated Governments in the civilized world - no longer a Government by free opinion, no longer a Government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a Government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.”

“I am remarkably likeable. Few people have ever been as likeable as I am. There is, frankly, no end to my likeability. People gather together in public assemblies to discuss how much they like me. I have several awards, and a small medal from a small country in South America which pays tribute both to how much I am liked and my general all around wonderfulness. I don't have it on me, of course. I keep my medals in my sock drawer.”

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Book:Anansi Boys

Source: Anansi Boys

“For our purposes you can consider it a small country between Germany and France." "But there isn't anything between Germany and France. Except Switzerland." "Precisely," said Jace.”

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Book:City of Bones

Source: City of Bones

“Peace consists, very largely, in the fact of desiring it with all one's soul. The inhabitants of my small country, Costa Rica, have realized those words by Erasmus. Mine is an unarmed people, whose children have never seen a fighter or a tank or a warship.”

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Author:Oscar Arias

“It's a unique situation as well because England is a small country, so it makes it easy for the fans to travel. If we play down in London, they get buses and we'll get three or four thousand fans come down. They'll all sit in the same area and show their support for the team.”

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Author:Claudio Reyna

“I can't do Los Angeles. I've always been the anti-Barbie. I don't want to be in a place where almost every woman walks around with puffy lips, little noses and breasts large enough to nourish a small country.”

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Author:Vera Farmiga

“Europe started out with six countries; three small countries and three large countries.”

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Author:Jean-Pierre Raffarin

“If a great country yields to a small country, it will conquer the small country. If a small country yields to a great country, it will be conquered by the great country.”

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Author:Laozi

“A great country needs more people to serve it. A small country needs more people to serve. So, if both shall get what they need, the great country ought to yield.”

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Author:Laozi

“We, the present-day political leaders, are called upon to take responsibility for making joint decisions upon which the prosperity of future generations will heavily depend. Serbia may be a small country yet, through partner cooperation with others, it can confront all challenges and address problems that overcome its capacities.”

“Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which will one day allow us all to renounce the weapons of mass destruction. We are a small country and what we can do is limited. But in this as in every other great issue, we have to start somewhere.”

“Sweden is a small country, and a Swedish writer can barely make a living as an author. We were able to quit our jobs as journalists only after we had been translated into, among others, German.”

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Author:Maj Sjowall

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