Paris Quotes - Page 23

• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  Xavier Niel

  Real, Valleys, Spirit

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• When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

  Andrej Pejic

  Casting, Rooms, Sitting

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cambridge University, Oxford, Intellectual

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

  Jacques Pepin

  Religious, Jobs, America

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• I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

  Jean Pigozzi

  New York, Museums, Bills

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• I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Cities, My Favorite, Favorite City

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• I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

  Edward Ruscha

  Romance, London, Visiting

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• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Brother, Airplane

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• As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.

  Ali Smith

  Stars, Names, Rome

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• Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Men, Thinking, Japan

  "Satires (satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

  Kristen Wiig

  Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.

  Jen Kirkman

  People, Looks, Suits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's just fun to be in Paris.

  Nanette Lepore

  Fun

  "Designer Nanette Lepore Talks Travel, Flea Markets & Her Favorite eBay Find". Interview with Meredith Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2010.

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• I don't like Paris so much.

  Bam Margera

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• I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

  Rachel Zoe

  New York, Play, Style

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• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

  Leon Krier

  Artist, Order, Ideas

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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• All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

  Willa Cather

  Brave, Southern, Handsome

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• When I was going to Paris for Paris Fashion Week, I'd often walk down the street and go into all the different shops that we didn't necessarily have in the UK and Maje was definitely one of the ones that stood out for me.

  Alexa Chung

  Fashion, Different, Week

  "Maje Fetes Alexa Chung in a French Meets British Fashion Collab". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. October 12, 2012.

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• I always love going to Paris, and now I feel like I know it really well.

  Jacquelyn Jablonski

  Feels, Wells, Knows

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• I still live in an apartment in Paris with my wife. No, we don't have a yacht, but we do have a house in Spain; that is my luxury.

  Pierre Dukan

  Luxury, Wife, House

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• When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Planets, Aim

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• When Picasso painted in Paris, was he a Spanish or a French painter? It does not matter, he was Picasso, whatever the influences surrounding him. He simply chose Paris because it was the ideal place for him to sell his creation.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Doe, Matter, Influence

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• I felt very special in Paris, more special than I felt in London. I love London for different reasons. I've always been close to London, being English. But somehow there's something special about living as an Englishwoman in Paris.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Special, Different, London

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• When I moved to Paris in the '70s, there wasn't very much going on in film in England. So when I started doing French films, there was a natural movement toward the kind of films I wanted to do. It wasn't the reason I came, but it so happened that I stepped into a time and place that actually corresponded to what I wanted. That sometimes happens in life. And it was rather beautiful.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Beautiful, England, Movement

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• When I look into the eyes of my Prince, and my daughter Paris, I see miracles and I see beauty.

  Michael Jackson

  Daughter, Eye, Miracle

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