Paris Quotes
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One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera's ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
Jean-Michel Jarre -
I fell in love with New York. I moved here 25 years ago in 1984 after I lived in Paris for six years. In the 1980s, it was the place to be. Here I was able to create NARS, which I would not have been able to create if I stayed in France.
Francois Nars
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Eleanor [Marx] was involved in the 1889 Paris congress resolution that established May Day as an annual demonstration of the international solidarity of labour in the demand for a legal eight-hour day.
Rachel Holmes -
I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.
Leslie Caron -
One of the things I say is, 'You want to know what it's like to be a baby? It's like being in love for the first time in Paris after four double espressos.' And boy, you are alive and conscious.
Alison Gopnik -
If all I did was pretend I was Wilderness Jimmy, I would go stale. You know, I fish maybe 100 days of the year and bird-hunt, but if I didn't go to Paris once or twice a year, I'd be crazy.
Jim Harrison -
An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I have not been keeping up with it as much as I should have maybe, because it’s certainly-This and Paris Hilton are the kind of issues that seem to get a lot more attention than maybe some of us think they deserve.
John McCain
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Paris, Texas gave me a chance to play compassion, and I'm spelling that with a capital C.
Harry Dean Stanton -
What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!
Charles Dickens -
When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Jean-Jacques Annaud -
I've been singing properly every day since I was about fifteen or sixteen, and I have never had any problems with my voice, ever. I've had a sore throat here and there, had a cold and sung through it, but that day it just went while I was onstage in Paris during a radio show. It was literally like someone had pulled a curtain over it.
Adele -
Paris is just special. I don't say that there are no other cities in America or Italy. But everybody wants to show in Paris.
Catherine Deneuve -
I have pictures of my grandmother from the 1920s and '30s in avant-garde dresses that looked like they could have come from the House of Worth or Lucien Lelong. She would never say if they were couture, but I do recall her telling me, 'All my clothes and shoes came from Paris.'
Kevin Kwan
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I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.
James Weldon Johnson -
One never sees Paris for the first time; one always sees it again.
Edmondo De Amicis -
When I left for college, I put Miami behind me and tried to have a life of the mind. I got a graduate degree. I traveled. I even married a fellow writer, whose only real estate was a dingy one-bedroom apartment in Paris, where we lived.
Pamela Druckerman -
It is true that the king has made a truce with the duke of Burgundy for fifteen days and that the duke is to turn over the city of Paris at the end of fifteen days. Yet you should not marvel if I do not enter that city so quickly.
Joan of Arc -
Speech in Paris (12 November 1982).
Denis Healey -
I appreciated being rich because it allowed me to study in Paris and Geneva.
John Kendrew
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I'd love to win Paris-Roubaix.
Bradley Wiggins -
For me, the sketching of dresses was about fantasy and dreams. In my little room at home, I felt that I was somewhere else. In Paris, for instance.
Alber Elbaz -
Whether I'm at home in London or in Paris for Loewe, I always like to walk to work.
Jonathan Anderson -
While in Paris, I got into modeling - photographers would literally stop me on the street.
Khoudia Diop