French Quotes
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Ho joined the French socialist party, the first Vietnamese to be a member of a French political party.
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Speak in French when you can't think of the English for a thing. Turn out your toes as you walk. And remember who you are!
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I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.
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The French are predictably unpredictable.
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I unfortunately don't speak French, but my wife is now fluent in English, which really reflects rather badly on me.
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The word impossible is not French.
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If the French were really intelligent, they'd speak English.
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The French are very individualistic.
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We heard that girls who had left to get married were being deported with their husbands. A girl who had a love affair with a French prisoner was sent to a concentration camp, and the Frenchman was executed.
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We are American at puberty. We die French.
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There's something Vichy about the French.
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The French courage proceeds from vanity...
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In the past the French came to Germany less with the desire to understand it than with a zealous desire to interpret, to analyze it dispassionately something for which their training at the Ecole Normale Superieure or the Ecole des Hautes Etudes and the French language superbly equipped them to do.
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Many Europeans think that all Moroccans speak French, but no. I had to make an effort to learn it when I studied French literature at the university in Rabat.
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I'll come out and say it because no one else will: French gross-out humor is the best. Particularly the illustrated variety.
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The pomp, power, and military bombast of 'La Marseillaise' draws me into the history of France and my own. The surname I was born with was French: D'Orsay; perhaps an ancestor was amongst those troops that marched to this evocative anthem for the first time as they entered Paris 200 years ago!
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The French don't seek out alliances except when there are difficulties.
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I speak Italian, French, Creole and English.
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It is the magic of nationalism to turn chance into destiny. With Debray we might say, 'Yes, it is quite accidental that I am born French; but after all, France is eternal.
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Let me say one thing to clarify my position. I think we can take distance from norm but I think we are also mired in norm, "empêtrés", I think you say in French. And I think the choices we can make are only in a certain struggle with the norms out of which we're constituted.
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I especially love French, Italian and Japanese cuisines.
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Two heavyset, rough-looking men were arguing about politics, and he was struck anew by a thought he used to have often when he lived here: there is no such thing as a French tough guy. A French tough guy, even if he’s tough as nails, speaks French, and therefore isn’t very tough at all. These men looked like boxers, but they were speaking a feminine language and sipping daintily from tiny espresso cups. Schiller, six-foot-something and wide, always felt terribly manly in France, the land of fragile men.
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I feel pretty stupid that I don't know any foreign languages. I wish I knew French or Arabic or Chinese.
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When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.
