France Quotes - Page 16

• I dreamt of becoming a ballet dancer. I studied with the Royal Academy of London for 11 years, and that did not pan out, but my love for being on stage was born there. And then, I actually went to drama school in Paris, France. That's where it first started.

  Diane Kruger

  Drama, School, Years

  "Diane Kruger Talks THE BRIDGE, Playing a Cop with Asperger’s, Working with Co-Star Demian Bichir, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 10, 2013.

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• Following the attacks in Paris, French President François Hollande has a completely different set of concerns. France needs more police, more security personnel and a greater emphasis on integration. He says that security is more important than the Stability Pact.

  Martin Schulz

  Paris, Police, Important

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• It took Sydney Pollack a long time to get me to do Tootsie. I asked myself if I wanted to play some frothy, ditzy character after I had just done Frances. Obviously, I'm thrilled that I did.

  Jessica Lange

  Character, Play, Long

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• The culture of France is unique because it's a culture that has a high priority on the arts, more than any other place in the world in our time since Greece. So as a practicing artist, if you will, this is home ground. They love us, so music, literature, art continues to be the center.

  Frank Gehry

  Art, Home, Unique

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• With the world in turmoil and doubt, the American people, faithful to the values that have always defined America's identity, have expressed with force their faith in progress and the future. At a time when we must face huge challenges together, your election has raised enormous hope in France, in Europe and beyond.

  Nicolas Sarkozy

  Europe, America, People

  "Electing Obama Sends Message To The World". "NPR News" with Eric Westervelt, www.npr.org. November 05, 2008.

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• Be ever more convinced that your guardian angel is really present, that he is ever at your side. St. Frances of Rome always saw him standing before her, his arms clasped at his breast, his eyes uplifted to Heaven; but at the slightest failing, he would cover his face as if in shame, and at times, turn his back to her.

  John Bosco

  Eye, Angel, Rome

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• Is French kissing in France just called kissing?

  Peter Kay

  Kissing, French Kiss

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• If Senator Rubio were doing his job and in Congress more, he might know that the program 'phone records of a potential terrorist cause' continues. It's been ongoing for the last six months. So the Paris tragedy, this tragedy happened while we were still doing bulk collection, all bulk collection. Also in France, they have a program a thousand-fold more invasive, collecting all of the data of all of the French.

  Rand Paul

  Jobs, Data, Paris

  "Meet the Press". www.nbcnews.com. December 6, 2015.

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• My film is actually very critical of the level of French we're using back home. To have an immigrant from an ancient French colony come and do that is a little critical of our education system back home. Balzac is definitely over their heads. It's meant to be funny also because it would be also probably too much for kids in France, but kids in France would know who Balzac is. But, back home at that age, I guarantee you they don't know who he is.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Kids, Home, Age

  Source: collider.com

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• The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.

  Philippe Falardeau

  Stars, Goal, Hollywood

  Source: collider.com

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• It's not my job. The Weinstein company, it's their job to convince people. My job was to make the movie. That's what I did. I know what we did in France was to have the maximum screenings just to let people talk about the movie and say they enjoyed the movie.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  Jobs, People, Company

  "Director Michel Hazanavicius THE ARTIST Interview". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. November 26, 2011.

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• Six months after 9/11, Jean-Marie Le Pen was almost elected president of France. There were a number of leaders and a number of parties running in the French national elections that year in the spring of 2002. But it ended up being not just a shock across France, and not just a shock across Europe. But it ended up being almost a worldwide shock when in the spring of 2002, Jean-Marie Le Pen came in second in those national elections. That put him in a two-man runoff for the presidency of France, spring of 2002.

  Rachel Maddow

  Running, Spring, Party

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• In that first national election after 9/11 in France, Jean-Marine Le Pen did not win the presidency, but he did get to the final round. He was in the general election. Now, this week, in the first national elections in France after what many people have been calling the French 9/11, the attacks in Paris three weeks ago, this time it`s Jean-Marie Le Pen`s daughter, Marine Le Pen and the National Front, which is still a far right pseudo-
  fascistic party, they came in first place in France.

  Rachel Maddow

  Daughter, Party, Marine

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• Francois Hollande is the president of France. He got all sorts of accolades for his leadership in France after the Paris attacks.

  Rachel Maddow

  Paris, President, Accolades

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• Goddess was made in my home in France. The material retained an integrity whit it would have lost in Los Angeles studio.

  Mick Jagger

  Integrity, Home, Goddess

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• England understands good Chinese, Japanese and Indian cuisine; in France, we just get French.

  Eva Green

  Chinese, Cuisine, England

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• My mother is an actress and very well known in France; hence, I move to London to start my own life.

  Eva Green

  Mother, Moving, London

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• France will always be a great nation.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Nations, Great Nations

  Napoleon Bonaparte “Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut”, Рипол Классик

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• Well, it looks like we've moved a step closer to war. Not with Iraq. With France and Germany. How did we screw that one up?

  Jay Leno

  War, Iraq, Germany

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• My first guiding principle is this: willing and active co-operation between independent sovereign states. Europe will be stronger precisely because it has France as France, Spain as Spain, Britain as Britain, each with its own customs, traditions and identity. It would be folly to try to fit them into some sort of identikit European personality.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Independent, Guiding Principles, Europe

  Margaret Thatcher, Conservative Political Centre (Great Britain) (1988). “CPC [publications].”

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• In the domain of painting and statuary, the present-day credo of the worldly wise, especially in France, is this: ... I believe that art is, and can only be, the exact reproduction of nature... An avenging God has heard the prayers of this multitude; Daguerre was his messiah.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Wise, Art, Prayer

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• My belief is, from all that I have seen of the French people and their Government, that they are much more likely to presume upon our weakness than to take offence at our strength.

  Robert Peel

  Government, People, Weakness

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• You can't get bored of winning. You can win 10 games in a row but you keep the same will to snatch the 11th. You always need more.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Winning, Games, Bored

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

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• It's true, pressure is something that goes with football nowadays. You need to accept it, and everything that it involves - the good and the bad.

  Zinedine Zidane

  Football, Pressure, Needs

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• Socrates worked towards making people question themselves. He like to provoke self-interrogation but wasn't particularly interested in the answers that emerged; he just like to set off the thought process.

  Eric Cantona

  Self, People, Answers

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