France Quotes - Page 19

• You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Winning, Games, Bored

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

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• It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Football, Pressure, Needs

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• As a devastating series of attacks rock America's oldest ally, the nation that stood by us after 9/11 that gifted us the Statue of Liberty. France on November 13, 2015 fell victims to the worst terror attack in its history.

  Peter King

  Rocks, Terror Attacks, America

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

  Eric Cantona

  Self, People, Answers

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• Footballing qualities can be developed, but Stoichkov is a player with character and inborn talent. I've seen him produce fantastic plays even from impossible situations... I couldn't believe it, when I heard that I used to be his idol.

  Michel Patini

  Believe, Character, Player

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• In France, ballet is on TV ... It's on the eight-o'clock news. It's a cool thing to be a dancer.

  Benjamin Millepied

  Eight, Dancer, Ballet

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• I've been fortunate enough to travel to comic conventions in Portugal, France, Canada, and it's an honor to get to meet people from all over the world.

  Brian K. Vaughan

  People, Honor, World

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Can you imagine a writer in England influencing? Absolutely not. And in France? It used to be, but no more-absolutely not. France used to, at least, have writers as diplomats, but not any more.

  Nadine Gordimer

  Diplomats, England, Influence

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It must be good to be in Germany and France, because I have completely forgotten what it is like to be proud of your government.

  Edward Norton

  Government, Germany, Proud

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• In North America, hip-hop and urban music are much more developed than it could be in Europe, except for a couple of markets like France, for example, or Germany, they're a little bit more aware.

  K-Maro

  Couple, Europe, Urban Music

  Source: www.hiphopcanada.com

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• Not so much that I wanted to give up rock writing, but I also wanted to try something new. So I moved to a crumbling stately heap on top of a hill in the middle of nowhere in southwest France, about 60 miles from Bordeaux: wine instead of cocaine.

  Sylvie Simmons

  Giving Up, Writing, Wine

  Source: thequietus.com

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• When you travel from your own country to another country for a long period, you do become aware of the differences. For example, verbal expression is much more important in France - in Finland people don't speak so much. Also, Finnish people say things directly; that kind of direct honesty would be very impolite in France.

  Kaija Saariaho

  Country, Honesty, Expression

  Source: www.sfgate.com

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• I don't have any problem with coverage of victims in France. My heart goes out to anyone who was hurt or killed over there.

  Lazarus of Bethany

  Hurt, Heart, Problem

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• I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

  Anne Fontaine

  Country, Blessed, Issues

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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