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839 France quotes by 583 unique authors
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With the broad and powerful swing of the hand which Zola in The Earth gave to his ploughman, L'Auto, journal of ideas and action, is…
— Henri Desgrange
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Colonialism is an idea born in the West that drives Western countries - like France, Italy, Belgium, Great Britain - to occupy countries outside of…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of…
— Ahmed Ben Bella
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Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I…
— Andy Partridge
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I still have agents in France, Los Angeles and Amsterdam who call and suggest parts. I'd love to keep on doing both painting and acting…
— Sylvia Kristel
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I don't think Obama's a socialist or evil, I just think he's wrong and I disagree with him, he's a leftist, that's what they are…
— Jonathan Krohn
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I just did in my early twenties what most did when they were teenagers, being free and exploring and making mistakes, but I did it…
— Molly Ringwald
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I liked Berkeley tremendously, Berkeley was a very leftist campus. I came to love that city as much as I love Paris or the south…
— Whitfield Diffie
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For us, sons of France, political sentiment is a passion; while, for the Englishmen, politics are a question of business.
— Wilfrid Laurier
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In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her…
— Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
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I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
— Adrian Lyne
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I am going to fight - I, a socialist and Syndicalist - so that we shall make an end to war, so that the little…
— Philip Gibbs
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I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.
— David Ginola
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The real reason French women don't get fat is not genetic, but cultural, and if the French subjected themselves to the American extremes of eating…
— Mireille Guiliano
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If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached…
— Camille Flammarion
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French people are charming, adorable but not extremely generous with foreigners, but they believe in what they do. I feel proud in exchange because what…
— Valentino Garavani
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A sign of the times: there are no longer any chairs in the bookshops along the embankments. [Noël] France was the last bookseller who provided…
— Jules de Goncourt
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There is a racist attack against Muslims and Arabs, Algerians, Moroccans, and Tunisians in France.
— Walid Jumblatt
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Yes, I travel in unusual circles. George Osborne and his wife Frances are my cousins.
— Daryl Hall
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If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France.
— Pierre Salinger
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When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I…
— Didier Drogba
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I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.
— Grant Wood
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You can't ride the Tour de France on mineral water.
— Jacques Anquetil
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As in all his subsequent dealings with France, Ho Chi Minh's demands were a model of modesty.
— Wilfred Burchett
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John Frances, Entertainment Chair, of the Friars Club: Of all the roasts that I have produced for the Friars Club, this is the one that…
— Mickey Rooney
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