France Quotes - Page 12

• For Europeans a president having an affair, especially in France, is a joke. No one cares, it would never bring this kind of trouble to a country.

  Julie Delpy

  Country, President, Care

  "indieWIRE INTERVIEW | “2 Days in Paris” Director Julie Delpy". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. August 8, 2007.

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• What works for Sweden wouldn't work for France or Germany or Italy. In a small state, you can reach outside for many of your activities. In a homogeneous culture, they are willing to pay higher taxes in order to achieve commonly held goals. But "common goals" are much harder to come by in larger, more heterogeneous populations.

  Milton Friedman

  Order, Goal, Population

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Where Chanel came from in France is anyone’s guess. She said one thing one day and another thing the next. She was a peasant—and a genius. Peasants and geniuses are the only people who count and she was both.

  Diana Vreeland

  People, One Day, Next

  Diana Vreeland (1997). “D.V.”

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• The Alliance and NATO is two different things. France is a member of the Alliance. NATO is an organization not mentioned in the North Atlantic Treaty, has been built up in the course of history, in the course of history France has left that organization. Normally the Alliance has been lead by consent, building up consensus on important issues of questions, in many instances over the last 30 years that I have followed events closely. In many, many cases was being done under the spiritual guidance of the American President, that is true, but sometimes also at the guidance of others.

  Helmut Schmidt

  Spiritual, Years, Building Up

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• If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.

  Raj Thackeray

  Hands, Looks, Language

  Source: www.scribd.com

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• I initially studied literature [in France], and then I went to cinema school. I discovered the Cinematheque, and saw not only action movies and westerns, but also lots of serious movies.

  Costa-Gavras

  School, Cinema, Literature

  Source: progressive.org

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• How did we get to the point where we're paying for bottled water? That must have been some weird marketing meeting over in France. Some French guy's sitting there, like, "How dumb do I think the Americans are? I bet you we could sell those idiots water."

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Thinking, Water

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• Each time, I try to find a family of interesting faces. I follow the tradition of films from the 40s - at this time, there were so many interesting faces in France. I often work with the same because there are not thousands and thousands in France. I'm looking for interesting faces and characters actors, and it's not for everybody.

  Jean-Pierre Jeunet

  Character, Interesting, Trying

  "Micmacs". Interview with Nobuhiro Hosoki, hosokinema.com.

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• The German and the Brazilian market is small. When we went to France they know a lot more, than just the American comics. The audience there was much different.

  Gabriel Ba

  Different, Audience, Knows

  Source: archiv.comicgate.de

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• Chef means boss and in France you get an office chef and you get a chef on a building site, etc. So I'm a chef de cuisine, chef of the kitchen, and that means that I'm in charge of a team.

  Paul Rankin

  Team, Mean, Office

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The president should stop apologizing, stop being defensive. The reality is the NSA has saved thousands of lives not just in the United States but in France, Germany and throughout Europe.

  Peter King

  Reality, Europe, Nsa

  "Peter King: Obama should ‘stop apologizing’ for NSA". www.washingtonpost.com. October 27, 2013.

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• I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell. It was news to me that there had been talk, even in the First World War, of dropping Colorado beetles on German potato crops and that kind of thing.

  Nicholson Baker

  War, England, Colorado

  "Nicholson Baker: Human Smoke". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. April 7, 2008.

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• France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

  Henry Miller

  Dream, Men, Soul

  Henry Miller (2010). “The Colossus of Maroussi”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• For my part, my interest in Paris had faded away completely long ago when I learned that it was in France.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Long Ago, Paris, Interest

  Jeff Lindsay (2008). “Dexter in the Dark”, p.9, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• We shall convince France and the world, that we are not a degraded people, humiliated under a colonial spirit of fear and a sense of inferiority, fitted to be the miserable instruments of foreign influence, and regardless of national honor, character, and interest.

  John Adams

  Fear, Character, People

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1854). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.114

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• In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

  Voltaire

  Men, Hammers, Anvils

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• Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe in France - they have a post-national worldview. I call them France-skeptics. That's why democracy is collapsing here in France.

  Marine Le Pen

  Believe, Class, Political

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• The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Fighting, Army, Organization

  "For Ahmed Ben Bella, the liberation of the people in the South is still unachieved". Interview with Silvia Cattori, www.voltairenet.org. May 9, 2006.

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• I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are in France and in Great Britain and in Canada.

  Jonathan Krohn

  Thinking, Evil, Canada

  "Jonathan Krohn, 15-Year-Old Conservative, Talks About ‘Extreme Views’ Of Anti-Obama Conservatives". www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided chairs where you could sit down and chat and waste a little time between sales. Nowadays books are bought standing. A request for a book and the naming of the price: that is the sort of transaction to which the all-devouring activity of modern trade has reduced bookselling, which used to be a matter for dawdling, idling, and chatty, friendly browsing.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Book, Friendly, Littles

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• If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.

  Pierre Salinger

  Country, Winning, Ifs

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• John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that I am most excited about. Mickey is one of the Club's dearest friends, and we wanted to honor him in the way we know best.

  Mickey Rooney

  Friendship, Honor, Clubs

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• It is obvious we are fighting for the Air France Group. . . . But in actual fact, we are also fighting for France.

  Christian Blanc

  Fighting, Air, Groups

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• I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Teamwork, Stories

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• But the fact is that I wouldn't have won even a single Tour de France without the lesson of illness. What it teaches is this: pain is temporary. Quitting lasts forever.

  Lance Armstrong

  Pain, Forever, Champion

  "Every Second Counts". Book by Lance Armstrong with Sally Jenkins Copyright, www.today.com. 2003.

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