Paris Quotes - Page 35

• I love Paris for its wide boulevards and cafes, and Rome for the ancient history, as seen at the Forum.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  Rome, Cafes, Ancient

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• The Paris climate conference in December, 2015 was a recognition that countries bring their climate policies to international meetings rather than create them during the negotiations (much less do they receive orders from the international community and then go home and implement them).

  Dale Jamieson

  Country, Home, Order

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• I'm totally in favour of meeting our Paris commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But I don't think we should do that by making ourselves uncompetitive.

  Chris Alexander

  Commitment, Thinking, Favour

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Art is fantastic, but it's also that you come to Paris, you call me, I come to New York, I come to visit you, we hang out together, and that's art.

  Patrick Seguin

  Art, New York, Visits You

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• I was born in the south of France, I moved to Paris 30 years ago. I was running nightclubs and restaurants, so that was my business - working until six o'clock every morning, and then one day I noticed my wife. We opened the gallery together. She got pregnant, she was 22, I was 35, and it was time for me to change my life, and I decided to wake up early - wake up at the time I used to sleep.

  Patrick Seguin

  Running, Morning, Sleep

  "A Collector’s Carte Blanche". Interview With Nate Lowman, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 21, 2016.

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• [My father] did get enough money to buy mules. We didn't have tractors, but he bought mules, wagons, cultivators and some farming equipment. As soon as he bought that and decided to rent some land, because it was always better if you rent the land, but as soon as he got the mules and wagons and everything, somebody went to our trough - a white man who didn't live very far from us - and he fed the mules Paris Green, put it in their food and it killed the mules and our cows.

  Fannie Lou Hamer

  Father, Men, Land

  Source: www.encyclopedia.com

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• In Paris, I didn't want to be friends with people in fashion. I wanted to get into a philosophical society where all the thinking men were.

  Jean-Charles de Castelbajac

  Fashion, Philosophical, Men

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Lyndon Johnson who was the president who was executing that war, announced in the spring of 1968 that he would not seek the presidency again. He would go to Paris and end the war in Vietnam. Well we were ecstatic.

  Bill Ayers

  Spring, War, President

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• I certainly think I have aspects of Paris in me.

  Liza Weil

  Thinking, Aspect

  Source: www.cosmopolitan.com

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• I'm a little bit older, I've traveled the world, spent lots of time in New York and Paris and lots of inspiring places, and I still feel alien.

  FKA twigs

  New York, World, Littles

  Source: www.vanityfair.com

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• Like Rick in Casablanca: "We'll always have Paris." When what we'll always have is, like, Brooklyn and arguments about [Lev] Trotsky.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Brooklyn, Argument, Trotsky

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If ever you wish to meet intellectual frauds in quantity, go to Paris.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Intellectual, Wish, Fraud

  "A singular writer". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. September 7, 2001.

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• My first modeling job in Paris, the photographer said, 'Tue es belle,' which means, 'you are pretty,' and I thought he said, 'Tu es poubelle,' which means, 'you are the trash can.' I burst into tears. He was not happy about that.

  Rachel Nichols

  Jobs, Mean, Tears

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• I was born in a suburb of Paris, and I grew up there until I was 16, so there were always a lot of barbecues, a garden, friends.

  Vanessa Paradis

  Garden, Grew Up, Born

  Interview with Patti Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 05, 2010.

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• Paris Hilton, it turns out, is related to fellow celebrity jailbirds Zsa Zsa Gabor and G. Gordon Liddy.

  Steven Pinker

  Turns, Related, Fellows

  "Surprising Family Trees!". abcnews.go.com. October 18, 2007.

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• In Paris, one is always reminded of being a foreigner. If you park your car wrong, it is not the fact that it's on the sidewalk that matters, but the fact that you speak with an accent.

  Roman Polanski

  Car, Matter, Parks

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

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• Everyone dreams of living in Paris.

  Natalie Portman

  Dream

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• Living in Paris was a crash course in chic.

  Rebecca Romijn

  Crash, Chic, Courses

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• I would love to live in Paris and speak French. That would make me feel glamorous!

  Amanda Seyfried

  Speaks French, Glamorous, Feels

  "Amanda Seyfried: The Most Down-To-Earth Member of the Glam New Guard". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2010.

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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hate, Ideas, Jail

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• I didn't begin my life in 1975 with 'Horses.' I recorded 'Horses' in 1975, but was drawing in Paris in 1969.

  Patti Smith

  Horse, Drawing

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• Since childhood, it was my dream to go where all the poets and artists had been. Rimbaud, Artaud, Brancusi, Camus, Picasso, Bresson, Goddard, Jeanne Moreau, Juliette Greco, everybody - Paris for me was a Mecca.

  Patti Smith

  Dream, Artist, Childhood

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• One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Humble, Russia, Imagination

  "Q&A: André Leon Talley". Interview with Luisa Zargani, wwd.com. February 28, 2013.

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• In Paris, you learn wit, in London you learn to crush your social rivals, and in Florence you learn poise.

  Virgil Thomson

  Crush, Florence, Rivals

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• I bought a Dutch barge and turned it into a recording studio. My plan was to go to Paris and record rolling down the Seine.

  Pete Townshend

  Rolling, Records, Dutch

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