Paris Quotes
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..the Place de l'Opera in Paris gives a better image of the new life than many theories. Its rhythms of opposition, twice repeated in its two directions, realizes a living equilibrium through the exactness of its execution.
Piet Mondrian
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My idea was to go to Vienna to study conducting and perhaps play in an orchestra first, so I thought before I got to Vienna I could do with a little training in Paris.
Harry Mathews
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This clarion call should guide the world towards a strong and durable universal climate agreement in Paris at the end of this year.
Christiana Figueres
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What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing.
Barack Obama
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All of my education at Harvard, then Oxford, then Paris was in literature - even my thesis was on Shakespeare.
Jonathan Kozol
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Paris with its multitude of art directions calls continuously to the deepest penetration and recognition of your inner essence. Only in this way it is possible to create work that refers the time span.
Bram van Velde
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I appreciate the people there thinking about me, and I look forward to coming back to Paris for that occasion.
Raymond Berry
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Paris is not a city, it is the image, the symbol of France, its today and yesterday, the reflection of its history, its geography and its hidden essence.
Nina Berberova
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I have looked for the center of the art scene. I went to Paris as a student. I lived in Venice, California.
Eleanor Coppola
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He went to Paris looking for answers to questions that bothered him so. He was impressive, young and aggressive, saving the world on his own.
Jimmy Buffett
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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
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The songs of Bizet are by a French peer of Rossini. When Rossini stopped composing, he was living in Paris. He also wrote some beautiful songs in French.
Cecilia Bartoli
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It's a huge Carthusian monastery, stuck down between rocks and sea, where you may imagine me, without white gloves or hair curling, as pale as ever, in a cell with such doors as Paris never had for gates. The cell is the shape of a tall coffin, with an enormous dusty vaulting, a small window... Bach, my scrawls and waste paper - silence - you could scream - there would still be silence. Indeed, I write to you from a strange place.
Frederic Chopin
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I'm pretty happy with the two cities I call home now - Glasgow and New York. But I'd like to give Paris a shot.
Kelly Macdonald
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I'm a nomad. I have a place in New York in the Flatiron District, and I have a place in Paris in Ile Saint-Louis, and I spend a lot of time in Congo.
Eve Ensler
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To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.
Victor Hugo
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I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'
Helen McCrory
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There are moments when you have to write certain things and you don't have to think of your sex. If you are writing about the population of the thirteenth district in Paris, even if you are writing on the women in the thirteenth district, there's no need to consider your sex.
Simone de Beauvoir
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Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.
Eustache Deschamps
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We have known each other for a long time, and I've always known the real Paris. I always knew she was like wife material or serious girlfriend material.
Benji Madden Good Charlotte
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Paris is dirty. It has pigeons and black yards. The people have white skin.
Albert Camus
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Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.
Eva Herzigova
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I went to Paris when I was about 18 and then went to Miami and New York. I did all of that alone. I did it to myself.
Sunny Mabrey
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Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals.
Victor Hugo