France Quotes - Page 13

• Kickback is a police thriller which I wrote. I'm very proud of it. I did it in two parts for France because when I wrote it, there wasn't the audience demand for crime stuff that there is now.

  David Lloyd

  Two, Police, Demand

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• What will not luxury taste? Earth, sea, and air, Are daily ransack'd for the bill of fare. Blood stuffed in skins is British Christians' food, And France robs marshes of the croaking brood.

  John Gay

  Christian, Luxury, Air

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• They have it wrong in asking if Schroeder favors Britain over France, or France over Britain. Schroeder favors Germany. That is what we all have to understand.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Understanding, Germany, Asking

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• Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. But if unlimited or unbalanced power of disposing property, be put into the hands of those who have no property, France will find, as we have found, the lamb committed to the custody of the world. In such a case, all the pathetic exhortations and addresses of the national assembly to the people, to respect property, will be regarded no more than the warbles of the songsters of the forest.

  John Adams

  Hands, People, Liberty

  "Discourses on Davila : A Series of Papers on Political History first published in the Gazette of the United States". Book by John Adams, No. 13, 1805.

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• I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

  Mads Mikkelsen

  Lucky, Actors, Able

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• People are too pretentious in France to like Sarkozy. But he'd be a fabulous president for America.

  Claude Lelouch

  America, People, President

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• For some reason I'm more appreciated in France than I am back home. The subtitles must be incredibly good.

  Woody Allen

  Home, Appreciated, Reason

  "Woody to open Cannes festival". www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2002.

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• At the head of any new undertaking where in France you would find the government, or in England some great lord, in the United States you are sure to find an association.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Government, United States, Association

  "Democracy in America" by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II, Book Two, Chapter V, 1840.

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• Poor France, thy fine climate, rich vineyards, and the wishes of the learned avail nothing; thou art a destitute beggar, and not the powerful friend thou wert represented to me.

  John James Audubon

  Art, Powerful, Wish

  Robert Buchanan, John James Audubon (2005). “Life and Adventures of Audubon the Naturalist”, p.131, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The country that consistently ranks among the highest in educational achievement is Finland. A rich country, but education is free. Germany, education is free. France, education is free.

  Noam Chomsky

  Country, Educational, Rich Countries

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• I don't need a Rolls-Royce, I don't need a house in the country, I don't need to live in the south of France. I'm quite happy as I am.

  John Lydon

  Country, Hero, Mean

  "What's up? Docs!" by Sam Delaney, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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• 24.9 percent of American children live in poverty, while the proportions in Germany, France and Italy are 8.6, 7.4 and 10.5 percent. And once born on the wrong side of the tracks, Americans are more likely to stay there than their counterparts in Europe. Those born to better-off families are more likely to stay better off. America is developing an aristocracy of the rich and a serfdom of the poor - the inevitable result of a twenty-year erosion of its social contract.

  Will Hutton

  Children, Erosion, Years

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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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• I love France. France is a nice place.

  Bubba Watson

  Nice

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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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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Men, Rocks

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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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• France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for.

  James May

  Country

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.

  Jenny Shipley

  Home, Decision, Storm

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• Few governments in the world, for example, praise human rights more ardently than does the government of France, and few have a worse record of supporting tyrants and killers.

  Richard Perle

  Rights, Government, Tyrants

  David Frum, Richard Perle (2003). “An End to Evil: How to Win the War on Terror”, p.233, Random House

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• If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

  Lewis Gordon

  Beach, Swim, Doubt

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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 study of social progress is to-day not less needed in literature than
  is the analysis of the human heart. We live in an age of universal
  investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
  France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama,
  because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other
  the individual lot of man. These embrace the whole of life. But it is the
  province of religion, of philosophy, of pure poetry only, to go beyond
  life, beyond time, into eternity.

  Alfred de Vigny

  Philosophy, Drama, Heart

  Alfred De Vigny (2018). “Cinq Mars”, p.11, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Contrary to a tenacious myth, France is not owned by California pension funds or the Bank of China, any more than the United States belongs to Japanese and German investors. The fear of getting into such a predicament is so strong today that fantasy often outstrips reality. The reality is that inequality with respect to capital is a far greater domestic issue than it is an international one.

  Thomas Piketty

  Strong, Reality, California

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• There is one great advantage to being an academic economist in France: here, economists are not highly respected in the academic and intellectual world or by political and financial elites. Hence they must set aside their contempt for other disciplines and their absurd claim to greater scientific legitimacy, despite the fact that they know almost nothing about anything.

  Thomas Piketty

  Discipline, Political, Intellectual

  Thomas Piketty (2017). “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, p.41, Harvard University Press

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