Paris Quotes - Page 20

• Yes, my grandfather worked with Thomas Edison on the electric car, and he sold electric cars at the 1900 World's Fair in Paris.

  Al Jardine

  Car, Grandfather, World

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• The song Dakota was first written in Paris. I was doing a promo trip. It was snowing and the hotel room was really cold and boring and for some reason I just had a go of the guitar and the song came pretty quick.

  Kelly Jones

  Song, Guitar, Snow

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• When I went through Marine boot camp in Paris Island, South Carolina, we actually did have bayonets that we trained with.

  Josh Mandel

  Marine, Islands, South Carolina

  "Glenn interviews Marco Rubio and Josh Mandel". Interview with Glenn Beck, www.glennbeck.com. November 2, 2012.

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• When you live in a small town in the Ukraine, you definitely want to go to Paris.

  Olga Kurylenko

  Ukraine, Want, Towns

  MoviesOnline interview, www.mi6-hq.com. October 27, 2008.

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• I was born and raised in a suburb of Paris by a working-class family.

  Olivier Martinez

  Class, Born, Raised

  "Olivier Martinez: Liberté, Egalité, Sensualité - Enter a New International Heartthrob". Interview with Vince Passaro, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 2002.

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• I've lived in Paris. I've lived in the Slovak Republic. I've spent extensive time in England, and I've traveled all over Europe.

  Romany Malco

  Europe, Republic, England

  "Romany Malco Talks THINK LIKE A MAN, A LITTLE BIT OF HEAVEN, UNSUPERVISED, and His YouTube Series". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. April 19, 2012.

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• When I want to be incognito, I don't wear any hat. Unfortunately, even without the hat, they now recognise me in Paris.

  Amelie Nothomb

  Want, Hats, Amelie

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• I joke that a person of color would never make a movie like “Midnight in Paris.” Nostalgia isn’t so enticing.

  Meshell Ndegeocello

  Color, Midnight, Nostalgia

  "Meshell Ndegeocello And Toshi Reagon Discuss Civil Rights, A Modern Day Civil War, And More". Interview with Toshi Reagon, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• If I have a day off, I want to get on a plane and go to Paris! If I have a couple hours off work, I want to run to the market and make a four-course meal. I like to do things that are unexpected.

  Ali Larter

  Running, Couple, Meals

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• The real force of Silicon Valley is the mentality, the spirit. There's no reason at all that can't be replicated in Paris.

  Xavier Niel

  Real, Valleys, Spirit

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• When I'm sitting in a casting room in Paris, I'm not the thinnest model. Sometimes I'm not the most flat-chested, either.

  Andrej Pejic

  Casting, Rooms, Sitting

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• Beginning under the Roman Empire, intellectual leadership in the West had been provided by Christianity. In the middle ages, who invented the first universities - in Paris, Oxford, Cambridge? The church.

  Nancy Pearcey

  Cambridge University, Oxford, Intellectual

  "America Will Never Be Free Until the Last Liberal Is Strangled in the Entrails of the Last Bureaucrat". www.pearceyreport.com. November 12, 2010.

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• I have an immigrant story. Most people come here for economic reasons, or religious reasons, or racial reasons, or gender reasons, or one of those things. I had a good job in Paris, but America was, and still is, the golden fleece. And I've done very well!

  Jacques Pepin

  Religious, Jobs, America

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• I'd love to open a private museum in Paris, London, or New York, but I don't have the money. If I were Bill Gates or Paul Allen, the first thing I would do is build a museum.

  Jean Pigozzi

  New York, Museums, Bills

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• I really love Paris. It's my favorite city.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Cities, My Favorite, Favorite City

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• I wasn't captivated by the romance of Paris or London. I love visiting, but I'd rather be in L.A.

  Edward Ruscha

  Romance, London, Visiting

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• There was a wonderful little short four-year time period when marvelous things happened. It started in 1908, when the Wright brothers flew in Paris, and everybody said, 'Ooh, hey, I can do that.' There's only a few people that have flown in early 1908. In four years, 39 countries had hundreds of airplanes, thousands of pilots.

  Burt Rutan

  Country, Brother, Airplane

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• As for Aliki - if you were to stand in the middle of Rome and say the name Sophia Loren, or Paris and say the name Catherine Deneuve or Brigitte Bardot, or L.A. and the name Marilyn Monroe, it's like standing in Athens, or anywhere in wide-flung Greece, and saying Aliki Vougiouklaki. A huge star - and so little known elsewhere in the world.

  Ali Smith

  Stars, Names, Rome

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• Of all the creatures that creep, swim, or fly, Peopling the earth, the waters, and the sky, From Rome to Iceland, Paris to Japan, I really think the greatest fool is man.

  Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

  Men, Thinking, Japan

  "Satires (satire 8)". Book by Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux, 1716.

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• I really, really want to go to Paris. I've never been.

  Kristen Wiig

  Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My joke is a picture of David Bowie on his balcony in the '70s in a suit in Paris, and unless that's you, I'm not interested. There are very few aesthetic types that I have, and people who look like that are not always necessarily good for me.

  Jen Kirkman

  People, Looks, Suits

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• It's just fun to be in Paris.

  Nanette Lepore

  Fun

  "Designer Nanette Lepore Talks Travel, Flea Markets & Her Favorite eBay Find". Interview with Meredith Barnett, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 04, 2010.

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• I don't like Paris so much.

  Bam Margera

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• I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

  Rachel Zoe

  New York, Play, Style

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• The problem was Le Corbusier was a genius and an enormous artist, but he tried to resolve problems to which there is no solution. So the idea to demolish the centre of Paris in order to adapt it to the car - he drew it! - is something not even the most bloody dictators conceived.

  Leon Krier

  Artist, Order, Ideas

  "The godfather of urban soul". Interview with Peter Hetherington, www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2006.

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