Gertrude Atherton Quotes
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
Carine Roitfeld
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I like to provoke. I'm very French.
Carine Roitfeld
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I love Cartier. They are the classic French jeweller.
Vincent Cassel
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He yawned. He had finished the day and he had also finished with his youth. Various well-bred moralities had already discreetly offered him their services: disillusioned epicureanism, smiling tolerance, resignation, common sense stoicism - all the aids whereby a man may savour, minute by minute, like a connoisseur, the failure of a life.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in his motives, having been made good by the supernatural grace of God.
Oswald Chambers
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The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.
Katharine Hepburn
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If there is any characteristic that is distinctly human, it is the capability for reflective self-consciousness.
Albert Bandura
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The French have launched their own version of Google, called Quaero. You just type in the subject you're interested in, and Quaero refuses to look it up for you.
Amy Poehler
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Each culture has its own characteristic manner of locomotion, sitting, standing, reclining, and gesturing.
Edward T. Hall
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The will to power, as the modern age from Hobbes to Nietzsche understood it, far from being a characteristic of the strong, is, like envy and greed, among the vices of the weak, and possibly even their most dangerous one. Power corrupts indeed when the weak band together in order to ruin the strong, but not before.
Hannah Arendt
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Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is an attack upon human diversity as such, that is, upon a characteristic of the "human status" without which the very words "mankind" or "humanity" would be devoid of meaning.
Hannah Arendt
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
Lord Byron
