France Quotes - Page 15

I wanted to have a title that wasn't in English so that someone in France, for instance, could ask for 'dix-huit' or the someone in Japan could ask for 'juhachi.'

Moby

Japan, Titles, Wanted

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Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese.

George Orwell

Exercise, Normal, Cheese

George Orwell (2001). “Orwell's England”, p.353, Penguin UK

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I took an estimated two thousand years of high school French, and when I finally got to France, I discovered that I didn't know one single phrase that was actually useful in a real-life French situation.

Dave Barry

Real, School, Two

Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry's Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need”, p.32, Ballantine Books

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Popular and democratic government is the only constitution which suits France, and all those who are worthy of the name of men.

Camille Desmoulins

Men, Names, Suits

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ISIS has brought down a Russian airliner. ISIS has now attacked a western democracy in - in France. And we do have a role in this. Not solely ours, but we must work collaboratively with other nations.

Martin O'Malley

Isis, Democracy, Roles

The CBS Democratic debate, www.washingtonpost.com. November 15, 2015.

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Christians are beginning to lose the spirit of intolerance which animated them: experience has shown the error of the expulsion of the Jews from Spain, and of the persecution of those Christians in France whose belief differed a little from that of the king. They have realized that zeal for the advancement of religion is different from a due attachment to it; and that in order to love it and fulfil its behests, it is not necessary to hate and persecute those who are opposed to it.

Baron de Montesquieu

Christian, Kings, Hate

"Persian Letters" by Baron de Montesquieu, Letter No. 60, 1721.

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In France cooking is a serious art form and a national sport. I think the French enjoy the complication of the art form and the cooking for cooking's sake. You can talk with a concierge or police officer about food in France as a general rule. It is not the general rule here. Classical cuisine, which I hope we are going back to, means certain ways of doing things and certain ways of not doing things. If you know classical French cooking you can do anything. If you don't know the basics, you turn out slop.

Julia Child

Sports, Art, Mean

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In France, if you talk to little boys, they know all of the NBA players and not one single Pro A player.

Tony Parker

Boys, Player, Nba

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It is useless to deny, and impossible to conceal, that a great part of Europe, the whole of Italy and France, and a great portion of Germany, to say nothing of other countries - is covered with a network of these secret societies, just as the superfices of the Earth are being covered with railroads.

Benjamin Disraeli

Country, Europe, Secret

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France is a country that loves to change their government if it is always the same.

Honore de Balzac

Country, Government, Ifs

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Places like Belgium and the south of France, Sweden and Copenhagen are really alive. They really love rock 'n' roll, they really respond.

Tom Verlaine

Rocks, Alive, Sweden

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France: As a professional journalist, I like the idea of a society where it is considered an acceptable occupation to basically sit around and drink.

Dave Barry

Ideas, Occupation, Drink

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In England it was enough that Newton was the greatest mathematican of his century; in France he would have been expected to be agreeable too.

Jean le Rond d'Alembert

England, Newton, Enough

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Dogs smoke in France.

Ozzy Osbourne

Dog, Smoke

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It wouldn't have existed without France, and it's a French initiative. As a filmmaker, I owe everything to France - I got accepted at a French film school that takes six directors a year. Once you're in, you make films under the eye of people in the industry. You grow up in front of their eyes.

Deniz Gamze Erguven

Growing Up, School, Eye

Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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The sight of stars always sets me dreaming just as naively as those black dots on a map set me dreaming of towns and villages. Why should these points of light in the firmament, I wonder, be less accessible than the dark ones on the map of France? We take a train to go to Torascon or Roven and we take death to a star.

Vincent Van Gogh

Dream, Stars, Dark

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I don't know any woman in France who doesn't talk to firemen and smile at them, because they're always so sweet, and they're wearing those tight pants. Even my dad looks at their ass when they walk down the street!

Julie Delpy

Sweet, Dad, Tight Pants

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Life is short, and the Tour de France long.

Giles Smith

Life Is Short, Long, Life Is

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Indonesia isn't the most beautiful country in the world. I don't think so. Italy is much lovelier - and France too. It's a very problematic country. And that's why you have to stay here for the rest of your life. Indonesia is a process. It's not a finished idea. It's a practice, and a trial and error.

Goenawan Mohamad

Beautiful, Country, Thinking

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In France, at least the German occupation was not especially inhumane, even if there were a number of excesses - inevitable in a country of 550,000 square kilometres... If the Germans had carried out mass executions across the country as the received wisdom would have it, then there wouldn't have been any need for concentration camps for political deportees.

Jean-Marie Le Pen

Country, Squares, Numbers

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Anne of Austria, wife of Louis XIII of France, had such an aversion to roses that she could not stand seeing one even in a painting.

Allen Lacy

Wife, Rose, Austria

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Upon my arrival in the United States the religious aspect of the country was the first thing that struck my attention; and the longer I stayed there, the more I perceived the great political consequences resulting from this new state of things. In France, I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united and that they reigned in common over the same country.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Country, Religious, Opposites

Alexis De Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy In America -- Vol. 1”, p.394

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We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden - a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.

Dick Morris

Government, People, Priorities

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Russia went into Syria basically to support President Bashar al-Assad. And the Western allies have said Russia's really done very little against ISIS. For his part, Putin said Russia's open to stronger cooperation, and he supports Frances's effort to build a strong anti-terror coalition.

Corey Flintoff

Strong, Russia, Isis

"Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

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Russia's now in the middle of a fierce confrontation with Turkey. And that's one of France's NATO allies.

Corey Flintoff

Russia, Turkeys, Allies

"Between France And Russia, Presidents Seek Common Ground In Syria". "All Things Considered" with Ari Shapiro, www.npr.org. November 26, 2015.

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