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Franco-American relations have been, and always will be, both conflictual and excellent. The U.S. finds France unbearable with its pretensions; we find the U.S. unbearable with its hegenomism. But deep down, we remember that the 'boys' - came to help us two times, just as the Americans remember that the French helped them with their independence. So there will be sparks but no fire, because a real bond exists.

Jacques Chirac

Real, Boys, Fire

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On the train: staring hypnotized at the blackness outside the window, feeling the incomparable rhythmic language of the wheels, clacking out nursery rhymes, summing up moments of the mind like the chant of a broken record: god is dead, god is dead. going, going, going. and the pure bliss of this, the erotic rocking of the coach. France splits open like a ripe fig in the mind; we are raping the land, we are not stopping.

Sylvia Plath

Land, Nurse, Broken

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.94, Anchor

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In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

Mireille Guiliano

Taken, Mean, Language

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I condemn what happened in Madrid, but it is suspicious. If tomorrow there will be another bombing, in France for example, who will gain power? Of course not Jacques Chirac, but Le Pen.

Walid Jumblatt

Gains, Madrid, Example

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America being behind France in upward mobility is a little bit like France being behind America in Croissants and Afternoon Sex.

Arianna Huffington

Sex, America, Mobility

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The problem with being a Tour de France winner is you always have that feeling of disappointment if you don't win again. That's the curse of the Tour de France.

Greg LeMond

Disappointment, Winning, Feelings

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'I will go to France, to Yugoslavia, to China, and continue my profession.' 'As sanitary engineer?' 'No, Monsieur. As adventurer. I will see all the peoples and all the countries of the world.'

Bruce Chatwin

Country, Travel, Yugoslavia

"Anatomy of Restlessness: Selected Writings 1969-1989".

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I am, I flatter myself, completely a citizen of the world. In my travels through Holland, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Corsica, France, I never felt myself from home.

James Boswell

Home, Switzerland, Germany

'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (ed. F. A. Pottle, 1936) 14 August 1773

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Holding Frances in my arms is the best drug in the world.

Kurt Cobain

Drug, World, Arms

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People have a good image of me. It's not these tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.

Patrice Evra

Lying, People, Annoying

"French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.

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France must be an example to the world in the quality of its food, starting with its children.

Bruno Le Maire

Children, Quality, Example

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I dont want to return to France, because Ive won everything there - league title, cup, best player, best young player

Eden Hazard

Player, League, Titles

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In France I'm very private, I don't like talking about my life, and I imagined that people would think that I'm now an open book.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

Book, Thinking, Talking

"Coupling On Camera and Off; Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg Talk About 'My Wife Is an Actress'". Interview with Guy V. Cimbalo, www.indiewire.com. July 16, 2002.

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Because I was born in Casablanca and my parents were from the south of Spain, I do not have a big central root in France. I feel French but in a few ways, not at all French.

Jean Reno

Roots, Parent, Spain

"Hollywood's favourite Frenchman". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. May 25, 2007.

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In France, if you have any sort of talent, you'd better keep it here. And if you're going to go abroad, it had better not be America. The old battle - American versus Frog cinema. It's ridiculous.

Jean Reno

America, Battle, Cinema

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President Bush has delivered a new resolution to the U.N. saying that Saddam has failed to cooperate with U.N. resolutions, freeing us to get our war on. Don't mess with us France, or we'll send Jerry Lewis to Iraq as a human shield.

Craig Kilborn

War, Iraq, President

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I did get offers from Hollywood, but they were all scripts with monsters in them. If I had done them, I would have disappeared. I would have come back to France anyway, and I would have had to start all over again and lost a lot of time.

Carole Bouquet

Monsters, Hollywood, Done

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I wouldn't mind dying for France, but not for Air France.

Charles de Gaulle

Funny, Travel, Air

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A French observer is surprised to hear how often an English or an American lawyer quotes the opinions of others, and how little he alludes to his own; ... This abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and American lawyer, this servitude of thought which he is obliged to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more conservative inclinations in England and America than in France.

Alexis de Tocqueville

England And America, Law, Giving

Alexis De Tocqueville (2004). “Democracy in America: The Complete and Unabridged Volumes I and II”, p.235, Bantam Classics

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In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy.

Winston Churchill

Men, Politics, Britain

Winston Churchill (1987). “The Irrepressible Churchill: Stories, Sayings and Impressions of Sir Winston Churchill”, London : Robson Books

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The peasant of early modern France inhabited a world of step-mothers and orphans, of inexorable, unending toil, and of brutal emotions, both raw and repressed.The human condition has changed so much since then that we can hardly imagine the way it appeared to people whose lives really were nasty, brutish, and short. This is why we need to reread Mother Goose.

Robert Darnton

Mother, People, Toil

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The single currency should allow the European Union, and therefore France, to balance its monetary strength with the United States. It should help us adjust to the development of China.

Laurent Fabius

Europe, Balance, Unions

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In most of the European countries - France stands out in its resistance to this particular form of American cultural imperialism - the national film industries were forced onto the defensive after the war by such binding agreements.

Fredric Jameson

Country, War, Agreement

Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books

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...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.

Michael Klare

Usa, Oil, Iraq

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I hope that France - and all of Europe - we would take an initiative for the year 2012 to be the year of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Nicolas Sarkozy

Israel, Years, Europe

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