France Quotes - Page 24

• I think a lot of people are trying to scare immigrants. But in reality, they have nothing to fear. You know, people who behave need not worry. Foreigners in France who hold a job, who respect our laws, our codes, have absolutely nothing to worry about.

  Marine Le Pen

  Jobs, Reality, Thinking

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• We are a great nation, which has lot to offer to the world, but to offer something to the world France has to remain France.

  Marine Le Pen

  World, Offers, Nations

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.

  Marine Le Pen

  Rocks, Leader, Political

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• I don't believe Vladimir Putin is a killer, a threat to France, to others in this region. Nothing Vladimir Putin has done would make me reach that conclusion.

  Marine Le Pen

  Believe, Done, Killers

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Vive les peuples, Vive la Republique! Vive la France!

  Marine Le Pen

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Think of Europe in the 20th century. Two World Wars generated by nationalism. France, Germany, Britain fighting with each other.

  Daniel Fried

  War, Fighting, Thinking

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• The United States is the most indebted country in the world. It has almost 17 billion dollars of debt with the rest of the world while living off the world's savings. They are living off the savings of the people of Greece, the savings of the people of Spain, France etc. All of those countries that save their reserves in the banks in dollars are simply financing the American economy, and that is why the average American citizen consumes two and a half times more than their income.

  Alejandro Castro Espin

  Country, Average, Two

  "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.

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• To achieve effectiveness and legitimacy it is time to scrap the right of veto given to permanent members of the UN, or at least severely restrict its use. It is also time to either abandon the idea of permanent membership or broaden it to reflect the rise of non-Western states to the status of global leaders (e.g. Brazil, India, Indonesia, Turkey, South Africa), and to downgrade European representation by either giving the European Union a single seat or rotating a European state among Germany, France, UK, and Italy.

  Richard A. Falk

  Turkeys, Ideas, Effectiveness

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Percy France told me, similarly, he and Bird used to hang out. They were good buddies. And he said, "Man, we'd just walk through town, sometimes with our horns. And we'd walk by past an Irish bar. And you'd stand outside and check out the music. And Bird would go in and sit in with these traditional Irish musicians. Then we'd past a Greek restaurant and we'd hear that. And Charles "Bird" Parker would go sit in with those guys. He was just listening to everything, reacting to everything.

  Jon Gordon

  Past, Men, Guy

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• When you're inside and you have no control and when you're the 14-year-old version of Frances Farmer, you know, you have reasons to be angry. You have reasons to be angry when your parents, who are very sheltered themselves, make decisions as to what you should experience in your life and what's normal and what's not.

  Eddie Vedder

  Years, Decision, Parent

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Germany has become the economic heart of Europe because our leaders are weak. But Germany should never forget that France is Europe's political heart. What is happening here today foreshadows what will happen in the rest of Europe in the coming years: the great return of the nation-state, which they wanted to obliterate.

  Marine Le Pen

  Heart, Years, Europe

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• The Americans are trying to expand their influence in the world, particularly in Europe. They are defending their own interests, not ours. I am in favor of a multi-polar world in which France once again takes its position as the leader of non-aligned states, not with the US, not with Russia and not with Germany. One should strive to be neither slave nor master.

  Marine Le Pen

  Russia, Europe, Leader

  Source: www.eunews.it

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• In France, we have laïcité, which means that atheism is almost our state religion. But I think a very important part of Western culture is in the centuries when Christianism was dominant and was present in almost all works of art - not only liturgical works, but also literature and music. Yes, it's important to have that in our present. It doesn't mean that people have to adhere to a dogma or practice a religion, but it's part of our heritage, and you have to at least try to understand it. Otherwise you can't be a modern person.

  Eugene Green

  Art, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Many Israelis can get to know what's really happening. I mean, you have soldiers who go and see things. It's not like France and Algiers or, I don't know, England and Kenya or Belgium and Kenya. It's in your backyard. It's much more about willingness, indecision, the inability, or exposure. There is a decision not to be exposed. People can live like five minutes away from it all.

  Amira Hass

  Mean, People, Decision

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• To think that we are disconnected in some way serves the occupation whether it's through indifference or a distancing. It is a colonial approach of making you a subject and them the spectators. That is disturbing and counterproductive. And then suddenly they are surprised or find it alienating that the microcosmic effects of Palestine are happening in the U.S., France, and England, whether it's from the Islamic movements or immigration factors. Keeping a false purity of their countries will harm them eventually.

  Elia Suleiman

  Country, Islamic, Thinking

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Our political class no longer has any convictions. You can only pass along the beliefs that you hold. They no longer believe in France - they have a post-national worldview. I call them France-skeptics. That's why democracy is collapsing here in France.

  Marine Le Pen

  Believe, Class, Political

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• King of England, and you, duke of Bedford, who call yourself regent of the kingdom of France... settle your debt to the king of Heaven; return to the Maiden, who is envoy of the king of Heaven, the keys to all the good towns you took and violated in France.

  Joan of Arc

  Kings, Keys, Heaven

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• I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Switzerland, Hollywood, Left

  "Brigitte Bardot fights plan for Hollywood biopic" by Lizzy Davies, www.theguardian.com. August 12, 2010.

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• I am against the Islamisation of France!

  Brigitte Bardot

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

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• My country, France, my homeland, my land is again invaded by an overpopulation of foreigners, especially Muslims.

  Brigitte Bardot

  Country, Land, Overpopulation

  "Le Carré de Pluton (Pluto's Square)". Book by Brigitte Bardot (Section "Open Letter to My Lost France"), 1999.

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• I had two family members involved in World War I: two great-uncles. One of them is on a memorial in France. And the other was a trench runner who survived the war. The average life span of a trench runner was 36 hours, but he survived the whole war.

  Ben Barnes

  Uncles, War, Average

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• Must we be put to shame by much smaller and poorer countries, by Ireland, France, Austria or Sweden, who have understood that a nation's support of its arts is a matter of both national pride and cultural survival?

  Theodore Bikel

  Country, Art, Pride

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• I get called Jacqueline Bissette in America. In France, I get called Jackie Bisset. And actually, it is Jacqueline Bisset, which is not that easy to say.

  Jacqueline Bisset

  America, Easy, Jackie

  "The Tavis Smiley Show" with Tavis Smiley, www.pbs.org. October 17, 2013.

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• It's my country but I don't want to know about France - I was born there but I feel English.

  Eric Cantona

  Country, Want, Born

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• France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.

  Barbara Cartland

  Love, Doors, People

  The Guardian, December 24, 1984.

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