France Quotes - Page 14

• A united Europe is our Continent's only chance to avoid falling off the world's radar. The heads of government of Germany, France and the United Kingdom also know that their voice is only heard internationally because they speak through the megaphone of the European Union.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Fall, Government, Europe

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Germany and France are pinning their hopes on young people, in terms of education, science and innovation.

  Francois Hollande

  People, Innovation, Germany

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• When it comes to France, it seems to me the fundamental question is how a former colonial power should interact with its former colony.

  Alvaro de Vasconcelos

  Fundamentals, Should, Former

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The true France is a multicultural France. Where someone is appointed minister not because she is a woman but because she is competent. And not because she is from a visible minority. I am against positive discrimination. Someone can be intelligent and black, and someone can be an imbecile and white.

  Patrick Gaubert

  Intelligent, White, Black

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Those who claim France as a nation-state is obsolete are wrong.

  Max Gallo

  Obsolete, States, Claims

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It’s funny, I started by making fake American movies, The Transporter and stuff like that. I was shooting in France, but everything was in English. But then afterwards, I was looking at real French movies like the Jacques Audiard movies.

  Louis Leterrier

  Real, Fake, Shooting

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• I’m stuck somewhere a small island in the middle of the Atlantic where I’m alone. Because in France, they’re like, no, you’re not like us, you’re not a French guy. And in America, they’re like, you’re not like us. I’m really alone in my little thing.

  Louis Leterrier

  America, Islands, Guy

  "Director Louis Leterrier Talks Shooting On Location, Practical Effects vs. CG, and More on the Set of NOW YOU SEE ME". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. April 15, 2013.

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• With words alone, Gail Godwin has created an important piece of music about a love which death can only increase and deepen. Yes, and Frances Halsband's illustrations are a haunting countermelody.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Illustration, Important, Haunting

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• If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

  Jeffrey Goldberg

  Mean, Healthy, Life Is

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• In England you laugh at yourselves, in France we laugh at others.

  Lou Doillon

  Laughing, England

  "How I get dressed". Interview with Lauren Cochrane, www.theguardian.com. August 2, 2008.

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• I think I was pretty much hated in France. The French press ignored me. There was a movement when the children of celebrities faced strong animosity.

  Lou Doillon

  Strong, Children, Thinking

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• My first trip abroad was to do a TV version of "Les Miserables" in France with Anthony Perkins. There I was at 12 acting with the guy from Psycho (1960). My parents were teachers, and it was hard for them to relate to that world.

  Dexter Fletcher

  Teacher, Guy, Parent

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

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• We need French chaplains and imams, French-speaking, who learn French, who love France. And who adhere to its values. And also French financing.

  Manuel Valls

  Love, Needs, Chaplains

  "Will Secular France’s Quest To Teach Islam Combat Radicalization?" by Chine Labbé, Gilbert Reilhac, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2015.

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• France, like other countries, is facing a terror threat that is unprecedented in its nature and magnitude, ... Terrorists are targeting France to divide us.

  Manuel Valls

  Country, Nature, Terrorist

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• those two wholesome defects of the French people, malice and curiosity, both of which are essential to its greatness.

  Marthe Bibesco

  Greatness, Two, People

  Marthe Bibesco (1928). “Catherine-Paris”

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• Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Reading, Writing, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Poland is smaller than France or Germany, for example. What would a common foreign policy look like? Would the trip I took to Kiev last week require a detour through Brussels in the future? Would it require approval from Brussels? While the West, for its part, doesn't think twice about other countries when it comes to its projects?

  Lech Kaczynski

  Country, Thinking, Detours

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I discovered is that I have a couple of valves that were leaky and had been giving, gave me a problem then. But I hadn't noticed anything up until then.A couple of incidents of shortness of breath and checked myself into a hospital, but that one in France really sat me down for a few minutes - a very few minutes, because seven days later I was in the studio, and eight days later, I was no the stage.

  Al Jarreau

  Couple, Eight, Giving

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. November 5, 2013.

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• I'm talking about France and Germany and Italy and Spain - new friend Germany - and I love that story, how they lead the world in some things that the world needs leadership in. Amongst them we're the only ones without national healthcare. Can't go to a hospital and not worry about falling into bankruptcy. They go to university free. We're killing our students with debt. That scares me.

  Tavis Smiley

  Fall, Talking, Worry

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Vladimir Putin mainly has friends in Europe among the extreme right, such as Marine Le Pen's Front National in France.

  Garry Kasparov

  Marine, Europe, Putin

  "Putin Needs Wars To Legitimize His Position". Interview with Erich Follath, www.spiegel.de. November 10, 2015.

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• A travel book is a book that puts you in the shoes of the traveler, and it's usually a book about having a very bad time, having a miserable time, even better. You don't want to read a book about someone having a great time in the South of France, eating and drinking and falling in love. What you want to read is a book about a guy going through the jungle, going through the arctic snow, having a terrible time trying to cross the Sahara, and solving problems as they go.

  Paul Theroux

  Falling In Love, Drinking, Book

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• King Fahd was also committed to the strong and trusting relations between France and Saudi Arabia. This old friendship, which began with an exceptional link established by General De Gaulle, took on a new dimension under his reign, helped by a shared vision of what was at stake regionally and internationally.

  Jacques Chirac

  Strong, Kings, Old Friends

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• Domenech is the worst coach France have had since Louis XVI.

  Eric Cantona

  Worst, Coaches

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• Whenever I see 'Dirty Rotten Scoundrels', a total comedy classic, I get the urge to feel the breeze of the south of France in the summer!

  Gwyneth Paltrow

  Summer, Dirty, Rotten

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• It was a thought, that. Not to attach yourself to a man, but to confront instead the open world, the wide fields of France and Spain, the ocean, anything. Not just to hitch a lift with the first fellow who looked as though he knew where he was going, but just to go.

  Jo Baker

  Ocean, Men, Spain

  Jo Baker (2013). “Longbourn”, p.163, Random House

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