France Quotes - Page 13

• If George W. Bush is elected president, I'm leaving for France.

  Robert Altman

  Leaving, President, Ifs

  "Director Vows To Flee U.S. If Bush Wins". abcnews.go.com.

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• In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

  Scott Thompson

  Thinking, Speaks French, Giving

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• Pharisaism became Talmudism...But the spirit of the Ancient Pharisee survives unaltered. When the Jew...studies the Talmud, he is actually repeating the arguments used in the Palestinian academies. From Palestine to Babylonia; from Babylonia to North Africa, Italy, Spain, France and Germany; from these to Poland, Russia and eastern Europe generally, ancient Pharisaism has wandered.

  Louis Finkelstein

  Russia, Europe, Spain

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• 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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• O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.

  Lord Byron

  Pain, Teaching, Mind

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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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• It goes back a long way. I wanted to make Tristan + Isolde as my second movie. My first movie was The Duellists. And I was standing in a very romantic part of France looking around me thinking, "My God, this would be perfect for Tristan," and to cut a long story short it never happened because I did Alien instead.

  Ridley Scott

  Cutting, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You can't go by what the governments say or do. It's not the governments. It's on the street where there's more hatred of Americans in Britain than in France.

  Whit Stillman

  Government, Hatred, Britain

  Interview with Noel Murray, www.avclub.com. February 28, 2006.

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• France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.

  Michel Ocelot

  Country, Office, Hollywood

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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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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• Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Important, Stories, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I'm the only Mauritanian filmmaker so it wouldn't make sense to make a film in France. I could shoot outside of my own country if the story was something that called for it. Africa really has to be the reason for me to make a new film.

  Abderrahmane Sissako

  Country, Stories, Film

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• The French always seemed to be so chic. The food was better, the clothes were better, the makeup was better, the hair was better. Everything was better in France.

  Helen Mirren

  Makeup, Hair, Clothes

  Source: www.moviesonline.ca

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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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• Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma is more than a character; she gives us an insight into human nature. With Emma, we are diving into the complexities of Flaubert's psyche.

  Sophie Barthes

  Character, Simple, Giving

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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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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• If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

  Robert H. Frank

  Economic Models, Example, Thumbs

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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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• Ergo, it is not St. George who is the patron saint of England, but Set of the Hyksos. In general terms whenever the code term "red" is used in the Old Testament, it denotes the Hyksos dynasty. Connected to the Order of the Garter, is the Most Distinguished Order of St. Michael and St. George, formed in 1818. Aditionally, legend has it that the senior members of the Merovingian dynasty of France (founders of the Knights Templar) had birthmarks in the shape of a red cross.

  Michael Tsarion

  Senior, Order, Knights

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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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