“I keep a very low profile in Switzerland. There are only about 2,000 people in the village I live in, so it’s a quiet town.”
“I grew up a little bit in Germany and then in Switzerland, then in France, the United States and in England, and so it is weird.”
“I have always found it jarring to encounter people born and raised in, say, Switzerland, who are denied its citizenship and still considered Algerians or Turks.”
“Indian films have this obsession with hygienic clean spaces, even though the country’s not so clean. They’re either shot in the studios or shot in London, in America, in Switzerland – clean places. Everywhere except India.”
“I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.”
“Threats of trade protectionism, plus unilateral actions on the exchange-rate front, such as the heavy interventions of China, Japan, and Switzerland in the currency markets – not to mention the retaliatory tariffs recently passed by the U.S. House of Representatives – endanger growth prospects and could further depress financial market confidence.”
“So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered.”
“While I have been to Switzerland, Stockholm, and other parts of Europe and Canada, I don’t have a specific place that is my favorite. I just represent Earth.”
“My main place is in Switzerland, but I live on a plane, really.”
“I would say the most help I got was from my dad. My dad is a civil engineer in Switzerland; he’s 90 years old now, so he’s no longer active as a civil engineer, but still a very active person.”
“I’ve been to several international film festivals, including those in Locarno, Switzerland; Dubai; Russia; Berlin; Cannes; Bangkok; and Hong Kong.”
“I’m from Switzerland, so I grew up with great chocolate.”
“I have fond memories from growing up in Switzerland and drinking a glass of warm milk with a spoonful of honey before bed.”
“I’ve been to a lot of places while touring, but I’d have to say Switzerland was my favorite.”
“The financial passport is part of full access to the E.U. market, and a precondition for that is the contribution to the E.U. budget. That has been the case in Norway and in Switzerland. That is clear.”
“Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.”
“Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.”
“We played some gigs in Switzerland a couple of weeks ago and it was the first time I really felt the group was really a band in the sense of something I could write for.”
“The outbreak of the war found my wife and me in Switzerland, where we were taking a cure.”
“In Italy, for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, they had 500 years of democracy and peace – and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
“In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!”
“I started going to exhibitions in Switzerland when I was 10 or 11. As a schoolboy, I would go every afternoon to see the long, thin figures of Giacometti.”
“And it is practically the same in the case of the four or five million poor peasants in France, and also for Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, and two of the Scandinavian countries. Everywhere small and medium sized industry prevails.”
“Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.”
“I’m quite fond of Switzerland. I love Switzerland.”
“In 25 years of exile, I’ve never had a frozen account, either in Switzerland or elsewhere in the world.”
“I think the U.K. would be perfectly successful as a standalone country, part of the European marketplace like Norway and Switzerland but without the expensive E.U. bureaucracy.”
“I initially moved to Switzerland for work on an animated feature film, and have been here ever since.”
“I’ll put it frankly – Britain has more influence in China than Norway or Switzerland, with all respect for the other countries.”
“I do not deny my German identity. But I also feel Swiss. Of my eight great-grandparents, seven were born Swiss. I have been living in Switzerland for more than 50 years.”
“I just got back from Switzerland, which I’ve never been to. I went to Switzerland and Amsterdam.”
“That’s one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there’s more jealousy in Switzerland because it’s so little and they don’t have so many athletes.”
“I’ve lived for 10 years in Switzerland, so I speak German.”
“That day, my first day on the job, was September 11, 2001! I was actually being recognized by Switzerland the very day that the World Trade Center was hit.”
“Democratic self-government has manifestly brought benefits to India, Japan, Norway, Switzerland, South Africa, South Korea, and scores of nations all making their way in the world.”
“It’s tough to find a place not to like in Switzerland.”
“Iran doesn’t need one centrifuge. Canada has nuclear energy. Spain has nuclear energy. Switzerland has nuclear energy, and they don’t enrich uranium. You don’t need to enrich uranium in order to use nuclear energy. You enrich uranium in order to produce a bomb.”
“In 1958, I decided that I was going to live in Europe permanently. So in 1959 I moved to Lugano, Switzerland.”
“I have been very fortunate to coach marvellous teams, and it has been a great honour to work for Switzerland.”
“If we heard that somebody starved to death in Sweden or Switzerland, we would be shocked.”
“I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.”
“My wife and I have spent most of our lives in France, and we are both pretty well bilingual, my wife more purely than I, since as a little girl she went to school in French Switzerland.”
“I grew up in Switzerland, in this kind of rigidity. It was Protestant, and I was rather shy. That influenced me a lot.”
“Every year, the World Economic Forum decides on a theme for its meeting of the world’s elite in Davos, Switzerland. Usually, it’s highfalutin nonsense that no one understands and everyone ignores.”
“Switzerland is part of the fight against terrorism. There is no neutrality against this threat.”
“The truth is I studied fine arts in Switzerland. I was just interested. I had no dream of being a movie star.”
“Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly.”
“My mother was born in Switzerland, my stepfather in Canada.”
“I look upon Switzerland as an inferior sort of Scotland.”
“I have been to Switzerland a handful of times, and it is quickly becoming one of my favorite places to climb.”
“I live in Italy. I visit my family in Switzerland.”
“In an ideal world, I’d spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.”
“I was born on June 3rd, 1929, in Graenichen in the Canton of Aargau, Switzerland, where I went to the public schools until the age of 16.”
“I was born in Kosovo and grew up in Switzerland.”
“I always traveled. I left Cameroon when I was 11 years old. I lived in the USA, in Switzerland.”
“I never felt truly at home in Switzerland.”
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