Budapest Quotes

• But if you go from Moscow to Budapest you think you are in Paris.

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Thinking, Paris, Moscow

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• When I was younger I was completely without money - when I was studying in Budapest, when I was a refugee

  Gyorgy Ligeti

  Study, Refugee, Refugee Camps

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• Empezamos a rodar en 1993, sólo cuatro años después de la caída del comunismo. La diferencia en Budapest en los últimos cinco años ha sido notable.

  Derek Jacobi

  Fall, Years, Differences

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• Estudié cuatro años en la Academia de Artes Teatrales de Budapest y me licencié.

  Bela Lugosi

  Art, Years, Degrees

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• Budapest is a prime site for dreams: the East’s exuberant vision of the West, the West’s uneasy hallucination of the East. It is a dreamed-up city; a city almost completely faked; a city invented out of other cities, out of Paris by way of Vienna — the imitation, as Claudio Magris has it, of an imitation.

  M. John Harrison

  Sueño, Ciudades, París

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• People fear they won’t get what they want.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Personas

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• There is no such place as Budapest. Perhaps you are thinking of Bucharest, and there is no such place as Bucharest, either.

  Robert Benchley

  Pensar

  Robert Benchley (2016). “My Ten Years in a Quandary and How They Grew”, p.94, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Budapest in late May is a city of lilacs. The sweet, languid, rather sleepy smell of lilacs wafts everywhere. And it is a city of lovers, many of them quite middle-aged. Walking with their arms around each other, embracing and kissing on park benches. A sensuousness very much bound up (it seems to me) with the heady ubiquitous smell of lilacs.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Sweet, Kissing, Cities

  Joyce Carol Oates (1988). “(Woman) writer: occasions and opportunities”, E P Dutton

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• Where would you like to go, what would you really like to do with your life? See Istanbul, Port Said, Nairobi, Budapest. Write a book. Smoke too many cigarettes. Fall off a cliff but get caught in a tree halfway down. Get shot at a few times in a dark alley on a Morrocan midnight. Love a beautiful woman.

  Ray Bradbury

  Beautiful, Book, Fall

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• Celtic Tiger portrays the oppression of a people and the tiger symbolises the awakening of their Spirit and their struggle for freedom.

  Michael Flatley

  Struggle, Thinking, Favourite City

  "Celtic Tiger" by Lizzie Guilfoyle, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• (Jace) "¿Hay algo especial que quieras ver? ¿París? ¿Budapest? ¿La Torre Inclinada de Pisa?" Sólo si cae sobre la cabeza de Sebastián, pensó.

  Cassandra Clare

  Otoño, Special You, París

  Cassandra Clare (2012). "Cassandra Clare: Serie Los instrumentos mortales (5 libros): Ciudad de huesos; Ciudad de cenizas; Ciudad de cristal; Ciudad de ángeles caídos, Ciudad de almas perdidas", p.1994, Simon and Schuster.

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• When I sang my American folk melodies in Budapest, Prague, Tiflis, Moscow, Oslo, or the Hebrides or on the Spanish front, the people understood and wept or rejoiced with the spirit of the songs. I found that where forces have been the same, whether people weave, build, pick cotton, or dig in the mine, they understand each other in the common language of work, suffering, and protest.

  Paul Robeson

  Song, People, Singing

  Paul Robeson, Philip Sheldon Foner (1978). "Paul Robeson habla: escritos, discursos, entrevistas, 1918-1974", Brunner-Routledge

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• Solely in the world of languages is the amateur of value. Well-intentioned sentences full of mistakes can still build bridges between people. Asking in broken Italian which train we are supposed to board at the Venice railway station is far from useless. Indeed, it is better to do that than to remain uncertain and silent and end up back in Budapest rather than in Milan.

  Kató Lomb

  Mistake, Italian, Bridges

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• Things have gotten openly more extreme in the last few years. I was lecturing in Hungary, whose prime minister, Victor Orban, is an example of this trend. All over Budapest, statues have been replaced, museum exhibits have been redone, to turn ethnic Hungarians, not Jews, into the prime victims of the Germans during World War II. Five years ago, who would have thought this possible?

  Adam Hochschild

  War, Years, Museums

  Fuente: www.macleans.ca

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• When I was a student at university, I went to live in Budapest. I grew up in the countryside. In those days, I had a conservative right-wing way of thinking. At university, I met the other young people with whom I made this party, Jobbik. These friends grew to include more people, and as more people with these extreme-right views joined us, Jobbik became more and more extreme right. I was young, in my 20s, and we could continuously identify with these ideas.

  Csanad Szegedi

  Party, Thinking, Views

  Fuente: www.salon.com

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• When I went travelling around Europe there was the Eurovision song contest on, and I got a bit dunk and we missed our train to Budapest the next day. Anyway, when I got back I kind of realised how many songs there were about people giving up things for somebody, so I thought I'd make a song about giving up things I don't have. These elaborate things that I don't have that I could give up to somebody, and I kind of thought there was kind of some sweet sentiment in that.

  George Ezra

  Sweet, Song, Giving Up

  Fuente: www.coupdemainmagazine.com

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• Estoy contigo. No me voy a ninguna parte". "¿Hay algo especial que quieras ver? ¿París? ¿Budapest? ¿La Torre Inclinada de Pisa?" Sólo si cae sobre la cabeza de Sebastian, pensó ella. "¿Podemos viajar a Idris? Quiero decir, supongo, ¿puede el apartamento viajar allí?" "No puede traspasar las barreras". Su mano trazó un camino por su mejilla. "Sabes, te he echado mucho de menos". "¿Quieres decir que no has tenido citas románticas con Sebastian mientras has estado lejos de mí?". "Lo intenté", dijo Jace, "pero no importa lo borracho que lo pongas, no quiere salir.

  Cassandra Clare

  Otoño, Medio, Pasado

  Cassandra Clare (2014). "La ciudad de las almas perdidas", p.220, Simon and Schuster.

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• The messages on our banners in 1979 - freedom, opportunity, family, enterprise, ownership - are now inscribed on the banners in Leipzig, Warsaw, Budapest and even Moscow.

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Opportunity, Moscow

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). "As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations", Robson Book Ltd

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• Two years ago, I shot 'Pillars of the Earth' in Budapest - it was a big part, but I had a lot of time to sit around and visit cafes.

  Eddie Redmayne

  Years, Two, Cafes

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• If you watch Michael Jackson [1992] concerts from Budapest and compare it to a Madonna concert of today, you'll see such uplifting beauty and a message that you won't see in any other artist of our time.

  David LaChapelle

  Uplifting, Artist, Watches

  Fuente: wwd.com

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• The younger generation forms a country of its own. It has no geographical boundaries. I've talked with young Hungarians in Budapest, with young Italians in Rome, with young Frenchmen in Paris, and with young people all over. ... These young people are going to do things. They are going to change things.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Country, Rome, Paris

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• This speaker reminds me of my childhood in Budapest. There were gypsy magicians who came to town to entertain us children. But as I recollect, there was one important difference: the gypsy only seemed to violate the laws of nature, he never really violated them!

  Theodore von Karman

  Children, Science, Law

  Theodore Von Kármán (1965). “Theodore Von Kármán, 1881-1963: In Memoriam”

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• I recently had a few days off while shooting a movie in Budapest, so I took a cab from the set to the airport, looked at the departure board, and decided where I wanted to go right then and there. I spent four days in Rome and didn't tell anyone I was going.

  Cory Monteith

  Airports, Rome, Boards

  "Fun Fearless Males 2011: Cory Monteith". Interview with Korin Miller, www.cosmopolitan.com. March 7, 2011.

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