France Quotes
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I saw the crown of France laying on the ground, so I picked it up with my sword.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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In France everything is a matter for jest. People make quips about the scaffold, about Napoleon's defeat on the banks of The Beresina, and about the barricades of our revolutions. So, at the assizes of the Last Judgment, there will always be a Frenchmen to crack a joke.
Honore de Balzac
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When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.
Olivier Megaton
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In France, I learned about wine and cheese.
Walter Wager
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France is a fantastic country. It's between the Anglo-Saxon and Latin cultures. We have some of the Anglo-Saxon rigor, and some of the Latin quirkiness.
Xavier Niel
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
Laura Dern
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
Nathalie Sarraute
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France could have all the socialism its capitalistic economy could support.
Francois Mitterrand
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
Anita Loos
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Countries like France should not be naive. We don't have a French YouTube or Amazon or Netflix.
Xavier Niel
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
Yogi Berra
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Do we have to give Mr Sarkozy a history lesson? Yes, there are Gauls among our ancestors. But there are also Romans, Normans, Celts, Nicois, Corsicans, Arabs, Italians, Spanish. That's France.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.
Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
Karl Lagerfeld
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Both France and Britain are supportive of India's bid for a broad-based agreement on trade and investment with the European Union.
Salman Khurshid
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France has a specificity - the market players who provide Internet access are the telecom operators, and all of the players are French. They had a habit of, let's say, getting along with each other, and the prices traditionally were very high.
Xavier Niel
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Italy and France could lop off their excessive wealth through a one-time tax on private wealth.
Edmund Phelps
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Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.
Lajos Kossuth
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The French never allow a distinguished son of France to lack a statue.
E. V. Lucas
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Only in a popular war against France... do I see a misfortune.
Ferdinand Lassalle
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Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.
Edmund White
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
Fabrice Grinda
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It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don't put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don't put on all their rings and all their bracelets.
Ines de La Fressange
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
Walid Jumblatt