France Quotes - Page 4

• It is in order that France may find her place in the new Europe that you will respond to my appeal.

  Pierre Laval

  Order, Europe, May

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• The education, the cultural awareness, is different in Europe, especially in France, from that in the United States. So I think the public will be much more appreciative of many images.

  Herb Ritts

  Thinking, Europe, United States

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• I remember playing football dressed in peculiar costumes with some friends in France and laughing so hard we couldn't even stand up, let alone kick the ball.

  Fred Frith

  Football, Laughing So Hard, Costumes

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• I have no intention of going back to France, except for yearly visits to meet my family.

  Francois Gautier

  My Family, Intention

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• I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

  David Ginola

  Acting, Lessons, South

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• The role of Italy and of Austria has diminished as has that of France and Britain; Germany and Japan have suffered catastrophically.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Japan, Germany, Roles

  Emily Greene Balch (1972). “Beyond Nationalism: The Social Thought of Emily Greene Balch”, New York : Twayne Publishers

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• Foucault was the one person I met in France that I could talk to. He was a mensch. You know whether you agree with him or not because you know what he is saying.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Mets, Agree, Persons

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• It is alleged that half a million Spanish men, women and children fled to France after the Franco victory.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Children, Men, Victory

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• A country like France now does two-thirds of its trade within the euro zone.

  Jean-Pierre Raffarin

  Country, Two, Doe

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• I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it in France. I did it privately.

  Molly Ringwald

  Mistake, Teenager, Being Free

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• I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south of France or New York.

  Whitfield Diffie

  New York, Cities, Paris

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• Now, I had been drawing all this time - especially in France of course - so, when I came back, my father gave me the chance to do a cover for one of the books he published.

  Dick Bruna

  Father, Book, Drawing

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• France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina.

  Wilfred Burchett

  Circles, Ears, Demand

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• I like health-conscious cooking, but growing up in the South, I do love southern cooking; southern France, southern Italy, southern Spain. I love southern cooking.

  Clarence Clemons

  Growing Up, Southern Italy, Cooking

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• There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.

  Walid Jumblatt

  Racist

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• France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.

  Wilson Greatbatch

  Safety, Perfect, Energy

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• France is the only nation in which astoundingly small numbers of civilized patrons reside.

  Gustave Courbet

  Artist, Small Numbers, Civilized

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• In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

  Gertrude Stein

  Literature, Fragrance, Oneself

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• Far less envy in America than in France.

  Stendhal

  America, Envy, Wit

  "On Love".

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• But do you know, I shall not be sorry to die. I shall be glad, Monsieur. And why glad, you ask? Because I love France and hate the Germans who have put this war on us.

  Philip Gibbs

  Sorry, Hate, War

  Philip Gibbs (1950). “The Soul of the War”, p.34, Library of Alexandria

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• I speak on due consideration because Britain, France, and Mexico, have abolished slavery, and all other European states are preparing to abolish it as speedily as they can.

  William H. Seward

  Europe, Mexico, Slavery

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• I've been to Paris, France, and I've been to Paris, Paramount. I think I prefer Paris, Paramount

  Ernst Lubitsch

  Thinking, Paris, Paramount

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• Well, I grew up between Holland and Israel and then moved to France when I was eleven.

  Keren Ann

  Israel, Grew Up, Eleven

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• Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of Europe.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Country, Europe, Ideas

  "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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• France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.

  Billy Wilder

  Travel, Money, Fall

  Billy Wilder, Robert Horton (2001). “Billy Wilder: Interviews”, p.23, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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