France Quotes - Page 18

• It was an identity crisis. I was born and raised in France, but I never really felt French, so I needed to find something that I was more connected to. I used to go back to Tunisia every summer, but I was more into the language, my Arabic roots.

  eL Seed

  Summer, Roots, Identity

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

  eL Seed

  Two, Two Things, Feels

  Interview with Emily McDermott, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 29, 2016.

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• My first book published in France was translated and titled Exercices d'Attente in 1972. It was a collection of short works written and published in Romania. In 1973 I was ready to publish the novel Arpièges, which I had started writing in Romanian and of which I had published some fragments under the title Vain Art of the Fugue. Some years later, I finished Necessary Marriage.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Art, Book, Writing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I was a professional chess player in Romania, but only a small-time master. When I came to France, I continued playing chess for many years: I played tournaments in numerous countries with mixed results. I wrote and published a book - La Défense Alekhine and translated two others from Russian. I taught chess in schools; I earned more money through chess than through literature.

  Dumitru Tepeneag

  Country, Book, School

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.

  Johnny Depp

  Daughter, Kids, Years

  "Johnny Depp on His Varied Career, Jack Sparrow, and “Torturing” Leonardo DiCaprio". collider.com. February 6, 2016.

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• I started going on ski trips at senior school. I can't remember exactly where but we skied in the Tirol in Austria a couple of times and also went to Val d'Isère in France. When I was 15, rugby took over and there wasn't time to ski any more. I didn't ski again until I was 33.

  Mike Tindall

  Senior, Couple, School

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• Every major country on earth, whether it's the U.K., whether it's France, whether it's Canada, has managed to provide healthcare to all people as a right and they are spending significantly less per capita on health care than we are. So I do not accept the belief that the United States of America can't do that.

  Bernie Sanders

  Country, America, People

  Bernie Sanders during Democratic Presidential Candidates Debate at the University of New Hampshire in Durham, New Hampshire, February 5, 2016.

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• But joint pressure from states like Germany, Italy and France could mean a move in this direction. Because something very fundamental is on the line: freedom of movement. I can't think of any common market that could function without it.

  Paolo Gentiloni

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• What King Abdullah of Jordan said is essentially the war against ISIS is a war for the soul of Islam. And it must be Muslim troops on the ground that will destroy ISIS, with the support of a coalition of major powers - U.S., U.K., France, Germany and Russia.

  Hillary Clinton

  Kings, War, Russia

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Living in France means I see the UK in snapshots. There is something quite nice about being in exile and the things you remember about places tend to be the most vivid details. You don't get that when you see somewhere every day.

  Jonathan Trigell

  Nice, Mean, Details

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I could definitely rock out to Kraftwerk's "Tour De France," Tubeway Army, or Gary Numan. All of that stuff has an infectious beat, but with "Oh Yeah," I can't even identify what's going on. It sounds like typewriter keys, a couple of synth notes and then this really deep "Oh yeah," which I always picture as Andre The Giant on vocals.

  Margaret Cho

  Couple, Army, Keys

  "Margaret Cho on why Yello’s “Oh Yeah” reminds her of sex clubs and John Hughes". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.avclub.com. March 2, 2016.

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• That's more about lifestyle [Peter Mayles], living abroad. It's about buying a donkey and house in south France, and that's a slightly different thing. A very popular genre but that's not quite my thing.

  John Gimlette

  House, Different, Buying

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.

  John Gimlette

  Book, Writing, People

  Source: www.identitytheory.com

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• I spent some time in France, visited Egypt and Mexico City. I hung out, biked around, planted some tomatoes. I did everything except wake up in a new town everyday. It was really boring. It's just life.

  Feist

  Egypt, Cities, Everyday

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I find it pretty fascinating how humans keep gravitating towards these giant centers. I went to this walled medieval village in France this year, and it was truly the most crazy, beautiful, bizarre place I've ever been.

  Feist

  Beautiful, Crazy, Years

  Interview with Ryan Dombal, pitchfork.com. September 28, 2011.

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• I find her [Frances Trollope] simply delightful, even in her prejudices and cantankerousness. It is a gift to an author to find a funny, wry, perceptive contemporary observer to whom the subject matter seems almost as different and alien, and requiring as much struggling to understand, as it did to me.

  Charles R. Morris

  Struggle, Different, Prejudice

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The basics of acting are really better in America than in Europe. Just the basic "fake laugh" is impossible to get in France.

  Thomas Mars

  America, Europe, Laughing

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

  Thomas Mars

  Children, Tv Shows, Tvs

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

  Thomas Mars

  Song, Apples, Association

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• At the time, in 1996, an electronic band signing with a major label was something new, at least in France. Daft Punk knew that this meant a marathon of promotion, TV appearances, etc. To protect themselves and to be discrete, they came up with the masks and, three years later, the robot helmets.

  Pedro Winter

  Years, Labels, Band

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• In places like Germany or France the idea of black-white is not so much black-white but "our people and them," and "them" can be people from the near east like Turks or Muslims or North Africans, all of whom might well be considered white in the United States.

  Nell Irvin Painter

  Ideas, White, People

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Training, Littles, Exam

  Source: bigthink.com

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• In fact, I barely missed being number one in France in both schools. In particular I did very well in mathematical problems.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  School, Numbers, Facts

  Source: bigthink.com

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• I spent my time very nicely in many ways, but not fully satisfactory. Then I became Professor in France, but realized that I was not - for the job that I should spend my life in.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Jobs, Way, Should

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It was a very big gamble. I lost my job in France, I received a job in which was extremely uncertain, how long would IBM be interested in research, but the gamble was taken and very shortly afterwards, I had this extraordinary fortune of stopping at Harvard to do a lecture and learning about the price variation in just the right way.

  Benoit Mandelbrot

  Jobs, Taken, Long

  Source: bigthink.com

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