France Quotes - Page 19

• During a period of time when Italy is talking about splitting northern and southern Italy, France is talking about splitting with Corsica and Normandy, England is talking about splitting with Wales and Scotland and England. And it goes on and on and on.

  Juan Enriquez

  Talking, Southern Italy, Scotland

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Something quite special has played out in the picturesque valleys and mountains, towns and villages of France over the past three weeks. For all who appreciate sport, it was a privilege and an inspiration to watch.

  Paul Ramadge

  Sports, Inspiration, Past

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• It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Teaching, Learning, Race

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I think that political parties are fuelling this fear in order to create divisions. The more we bring up fear, the more we neglect real political issues. Political debate in France is crumbling since every single issue is brought to Islam now.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Real, Party, Thinking

  Source: themuslimtimes.info

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• We have Trumpist (ph) tendencies in Europe. Look up Marine Le Pen in France. Look at the Five Star Movement headed by a clown by profession, Beppe Grillo, in Italy.

  Lionel Barber

  Stars, Marine, Europe

  "The Consequences Of The Brexit Referendum". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. June 11, 2016.

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• In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].

  Emmanuelle Bercot

  Government, Two, Tvs

  "Emmanuelle Bercot on Portraying the Juvenile Justice System in Cannes 2015 Opener ‘Standing Tall’". Interview with Laura Berger, www.indiewire.com. March 29, 2016.

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• France has not been able to come to terms with the fact that it's not a major power anymore. I mean even before the Second World War Paris was one of the main centers of intellectual and cultural life. But now Paris is a kind of subsidiary of Germany, their traditional enemy and they can't come to terms with it.

  Noam Chomsky

  War, Mean, Paris

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• How is it having more control if there are businesses from China, India, America choosing Germany and France over London?

  Sadiq Khan

  America, India, Germany

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The ESM, the European Stability Mechanism, is not funded by Germany alone. Twenty-seven percent of the bailout package comes from Germany. Italy and France together cover a total of 38 percent. That's reality. It makes no sense to say that everyone wants to get at Germany's money.

  Martin Schulz

  Reality, Together, Twenties

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• We lived in St. Tropez when I was young, and there were a lot of Vietnamese refugees in France at the time, after the war. My mother had many Vietnamese friends who entertained a lot, and she was taught how to make that spring roll. She would make them all the time.

  Eric Ripert

  Mother, Spring, War

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• It's sometimes difficult living in France. People are more open minded in England, and of course I'm missing England in terms of football and the passion that the fans show, they're really passionate.

  Emmanuel Petit

  Football, Passion, People

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

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• Some members, like Britain and France, are ready, willing and able to take action in Libya or Mali. Others are uncomfortable with the use of military force. Let's welcome that diversity, instead of trying to snuff it out.

  David Cameron

  Military, Diversity, Trying

  "The speech that was the start of the end of David Cameron". David Cameron's speech on a "Britain in a reformed Europe" at Bloomsberg's London headquarters, www.independent.co.uk. January 2013.

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• That's the luck we have with making films in Europe. It's still, in some ways, a virgin territory for a lot of stories. It's funny to see people in 10-gallon hats somewhere in France or Switzerland. You think, "Wow, is this real?" You do it in Wyoming and it's redundant.

  Thomas Bidegain

  Real, Thinking, Europe

  "Thomas Bidegain’s Solo Song" by Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 30, 2016.

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• I'm proud of the fact that Marine Le Pen in France insults me and Geert Wilders in the Netherlands calls me his opponent. The way I see it is, if these people weren't attacking me, I would be doing something wrong.

  Martin Schulz

  Marine, People, Would Be

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Thinking, Honor

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• I try to be really balanced. I walk a lot, I wear a Fitbit, and that has really been a game changer for me. I get my steps, I eat whatever I want, I go to France and put on my bread-and-butter suit. Then I'll be balanced, like I'm going to eat my salads for a few days. But I just try to be really balanced with my body. And that has been a good pact for me so far.

  Abigail Spencer

  Games, Trying, Body

  "Origin Series: Mad Men and True Detective actor Abigail Spencer". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The energy is still similar because I saw some old footage of us when we were in France that they'd dredged up out of God knows where and I was like, the energy is still there.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Energy, Saws, God Knows

  "Anthony Kiedis Interview Radio 2". Interview with Chris Evans, thechilisource.com. June 17, 2016.

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• One of the reasons why I failed was because I figured out in the research process that I couldn't tell it as just, "This is what Frances Farmer's life was like." There are so many questions as to what her life was like because of the way her story has been seized upon and exploited by different factions.

  Karina Longworth

  Different, Stories, Research

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• You look at what happened to the priest over the weekend in Paris, where his throat was cut, 85-year-old, beloved Catholic priest. You look at what happened in Nice, France, a couple of weeks ago. I would say, you gotta take a look that, because something is going on, and it's not good.

  Donald Trump

  Couple, Nice, Cutting

  "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos, abcnews.go.com. July 31, 2016.

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• I'd been influenced by reading books on art and colonies that existed in Paris and places like that and so when I came to Europe I came to France and I had very little money, and I had to live low and stayed in a bohemian section of Paris with a lot of other students, who were from medical school, science school and art school. We all lived in a kind of communal way and I was challenged politically, because I didn't have a clue and they would ask me questions about the Algerian War, which was very big in France in the late '50s.

  Robert Redford

  Art, War, Book

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• I was raised in California during the Second World War and into the '50s and everything was fine, everything was great. The sun always shone, everybody looked healthy and wore ties and smoked in restaurants, and there were cars for everybody - except us, because I came from a lower class neighbourhood. But [in France] I realised there was a different point of view, so when I came back to America a year and a half later I was much more focused on my own country culturally and politically.

  Robert Redford

  Country, War, Views

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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• Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically disenfranchised in a place like France in many of those neighborhoods, and make them say, ah, ISIS's message is true and real.

  Michael Leiter

  Real, Isis, People

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• I think that both Russia and other international actors, including those who are more actively engaged in the resolution of the Ukrainian crisis (that is the Federal Republic of Germany and France, the so-called Normandy Quartet, certainly, with close involvement of the United States, and we have intensified our dialogue on this issue), we should all be committed to the full and unconditional implementation of the agreements that were achieved in Minsk. The Minsk Agreements have to be implemented.

  Vladimir Putin

  Thinking, Agreement, Issues

  "Interview to American TV channel CBS and PBS". Interview with Charlie Rose, en.kremlin.ru. September 29, 2015.

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• I'm still the same. Take the fight against terrorism: after the attacks of September 11, I was the first to side with US President [George W.] Bush. And now, after the attacks in Paris, I have done the same with the President of France,[Oliver] Hollande. Terrorism threatens us all.

  Vladimir Putin

  Fighting, Paris, September 11

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• At least Germany and France have recently criticized that the Ukrainian central government has limited certain parts of the autonomy regulations to three years. They were supposed to last permanently.

  Vladimir Putin

  Years, Government, Regulation

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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