France Quotes - Page 22

• I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Thinking, Drawing

  Source: time.com

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• Now the new things happening in France don't interest me.

  Susan Sontag

  Interest, Happenings, New Things

  Source: ctheory.net

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• Not only in America but in Germany, in France since the war, in Germany after the First World War, the Germany of Adenauer, these are the creative relationships of Catholicism to a free society that the average American doesn't fully appreciate.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  War, Average, America

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• France and Germany were opposed to a maritime blockade of the Adriatic Sea without a mandate from the United Nations (UN). So, what we witnessed in Kosovo was an extraordinary war, a war waged solely with bombs from the air.

  Paul Virilio

  War, Air, Sea

  Source: ctheory.net

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• At home in the states, I think there's a tendency in the states to go for the latest, greatest thing. The latest, greatest is the latest greatest. I think when you're talking about France, England, things like that, they look for the history of an artist and they go back when it comes to music like this anyway. They will go back a little bit further. I think the United States is very knowledgeable and it's a good place to play.

  Joe Louis Walker

  Home, Thinking, Artist

  Source: magazine.100percentrock.com

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• I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.

  Varg Vikernes

  Albums, Use, Records

  Source: heathenharvest.org

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• I think [John Adams] developed a much deeper suspicion of France and the other European powers than he had earlier. He lost much if not all of the utopian thinking about international politics and diplomacy expressed in his Model Treaty of 1776 and became much more cynical about the world.

  Gordon S. Wood

  Thinking, Cynical, World

  Source: www.theimaginativeconservative.org

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• Agence France Presse says the Communist Party doesn't endorse Barack Obama, but that's just the media covering for him again. Because they do endorse Obama.

  Charles Foster Johnson

  Party, Media, Covering

  "Shiny Happy Communists". littlegreenfootballs.com. October 15, 2008.

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• Every fascist state like Germany, France, or modern Poland takes away citizen's right to self-defense. Fascist Americans such as Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton want to take arms away from American society.

  Janusz Korwin-Mikke

  Self, Germany, Defense

  tvn24.pl, July 05, 2008.

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• This is really hard to do but I'd like to change the tone now and briefly mention today's terrible tragedy in France. Twelve people were killed because a satirical newspaper made jokes that some group found offensive. All of us are accustomed to bad news from around the world. But this story hits home for anybody who mocks anyone.

  Conan O'Brien

  Home, People, Tragedy

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• Today's tragedy in Paris reminds us very viscerally that it's a right that some people are inexplicably forced to die for. So it's very important tonight that I express that everybody who works at our comedy show, all of us are terribly sad for the families and people of France and anybody in the world tonight who now has to think twice before making a joke. It's not the way it's supposed to be.

  Conan O'Brien

  Thinking, Paris, People

  "Jon Stewart on Paris Attack: "Comedy Shouldn't Be an Act of Courage" by Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 7, 2015.

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• France... What can you say about a country that was too stupid to get on board with our wonderfully-conceived and brilliantly-executed war in Iraq?

  Bill Maher

  Country, War, Stupid

  Bill Maher (2011). “The New New Rules: A Funny Look at How Everybody but Me Has Their Head Up Their Ass”, p.80, Penguin

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• Around here, we're as happy as God in France.

  Herman Koch

  Herman Koch (2012). “The Dinner”, p.54, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• In the old days it would have been a relatively simple matter to have checked Hitler's territorial ambitions. All you'd have needed would have been the 1914 combination of Britain, France and Russia. Indeed, if such an alliance had acted decisively to defend Czechoslovakia in 1938, Hitler might even have been overthrown by his own military. But it was not to be.

  Niall Ferguson

  Military, Ambition, Simple

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• In the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, as in so many later conflicts, British women seem to have been no more markedly pacifist than men. Instead, and exactly like so many of their male countrymen, some women found ways of combining support for the national interest with a measure of self-promotion. By assisting the war effort, women demonstrated that their concerns were by no means confined to the domestic sphere. Under cover of a patriotism that was often genuine and profound, they carved out for themselves a real if precarious place in the public sphere.

  Linda Colley

  Real, War, Mean

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• Sven-Göran Eriksson, confronted with arguably Europe's weakest qualifying group, has a problem; it is the same one that afflicted Jacques Santini, the France coach at the time, before Euro 2004. Not that there are no easy matches at international level; rather, there are no hard ones. In qualifying for the 2004 European Championship finals, France faced a group not of death, but of sun-block, comprising Slovenia, Israel, Cyprus and Malta, which they duly won by ten points, averaging 3.6 goals per game. We all know what happened next.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Block

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• I was literally fabricated over in France and born about six months after the boat landed at Ellis Island. This was the heart of the Depression. For the first 12 years of my life we lived in a terrible ghetto on the East River.

  Bob Cousy

  Sports, Heart, Ghetto

  "One-On-One With Bob Cousy". Interview with Clark Booth, www.goholycross.com. December 19, 2008.

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• And now with Argentina out, they will be on the plane home with France

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Home, Argentina

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• Frances Bellamy thought the changes spoiled the poetry of it. He was a pretty stern guy. Everybody has some sense of humor, but I don't think he had much.

  John Bellamy Foster

  Thinking, Guy, Sense Of Humor

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• When I'm at our house in France I totally cut myself off from the rest of the world. I never have to listen to phones ringing and that's because - and Vanessa would confirm this - phones are banned from the house. We have a beautiful life and I feel that spending time in France has just calmed me down and made me stop worrying about things which aren't really important.

  Johnny Depp

  Funny, Beautiful, Cutting

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• In France it was Joan of Arc; in the Crimea it was Florence Nightingale; in the deep south there was Rosa Parks; in India there was Mother Teresa and in Florida there was Katherine Harris.

  Larry Gatlin

  Mother, Florida, Florence Nightingale

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• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Latin, America, Black

  "The Latin master" by Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 4, 2001.

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• Listen, if the people in my district wanted to live in France, they'd move to France.

  Jeb Hensarling

  Moving, People, Wanted

  "An Interview with Congressman Jeb Hensarling on Tim Geithner, TARP & Team Obama". Interview with Larry Kudlow, www.nationalreview.com. April 22, 2009.

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• There arent many great passages written about food, but I love one by George Millar, who worked for the SOE in the second world war and wrote a book called Horned Pigeon. He had been on the run and hadnt eaten for a week, and his description of the cheese fondue he smells in the peasant kitchen of a house in eastern France is unbelievable.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Running, War, Book

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• France believes in armed intervention by America only when the intervention is in France to rescue France from occupation by other powers.

  William F. Buckley, Jr.

  Peace, War, Believe

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