European Quotes

There have been major disagreements within the European Union.

I learned that you can make a sci-fi film that is satisfying overseas. European people have everything in check. I'd make every sci-fi film in Europe. They only work 14 hours a day. After that, it's overtime.

I despise the phony, fancy-pants rhetoric of professors aping jargon-filled European locutions - which have blighted academic film criticism for over 30 years.

I declare myself an Austrian and a European. A united Europe will be a peaceful Europe.

We will do everything to change what needs to be changed, fight against recession so that the country meets its targets, while reinforcing our country in the heart of the euro and the European Union.

I cannot remember a time in opposition - I am talking about the last four years - when we have done less work on policy and more on slogans. But because of my European views I wasn't allowed to participate.

Yes, the European model remains superior to that of America and Japan.

I was constantly being pushed toward a European ideal of what it means to be a classical or opera singer, let's say in the Renata Tebaldi mode. I reject that.

No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.

Let's be careful when we start comparing American to European tolerance because there isn't necessarily a lot of European tolerance.

In Europe life is histrionic and dramatized, and in America, except when it is trying to be European, it is direct and sincere.

In jazz, there is a lot of European influence harmonically.

Growth in any individual European country has to be the result of policies for growth pursued in that country consistent with budgetary discipline.

When I took part in European leaders summits, it was sometimes unpleasant for me to hear Romanian, Polish, Portuguese, and Italian friends speak English, although I admit that on an informal basis, first contacts can be made in this language. Nevertheless, I will defend everywhere the use of the French language.