France Quote by Jean Paul Gaultier Download Open image “In France, history is paralyzing.” — Jean Paul Gaultier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare France History
For the Soul of France is masterful history, brilliantly researched, and hard to put down. — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
“The crisis of history in France, is a crisis of social bond, a crisis of citizenship. A citizen is the heir of a past… — Jean Sevillia Copy Share Image
Old France, weighed down with history, prostrated by wars and revolutions, endlessly vacillating from greatness to decline, but revived, century after century, by the… — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
I think the French have come to grips with their past, and that was true up until about - until the '70s. And then… — Robert O. Paxton Copy Share Image
France has been mired in people's minds for years. In reality, our children are taught that they have every reason to criticize her, to… — Marine Le Pen Copy Share Image
The French are very bizarre. There is this collective depiction: 'We're in decline, we're being assailed, we must protect ourselves.' — Alain Juppe Copy Share Image
“The French are never serious. They juggle with principles, make fun of difficulties and have been walking the tightrope of virtuosity for ten centuries.… — Maurice Dekobra Copy Share Image
[On Napoleon assuming power in France:] The time of Fable is over, the time of History has begun. — Josephine de Beauharnais Copy Share Image
I could say that making clothes is my way of communicating, because I was always so shy. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
The great thing about American women is their energy and the way they love to dress. French women don't really dress; they are too… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
In America, women are powerful and strong, determined. If they want to be an object, they choose to be in control. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
Clothes are expensive. You have to buy them, and to buy them, you have to believe in them. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I don't like dreams or reality. I like when dreams become reality because that is my life. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I know what I am able and not able to do. Fashion? OK. Fashion... clothes in theatre, in an opera, in a concert -… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
My clothes have always been expensive. Even though I have had a few lower-priced lines over the years, little by little everything I do… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
You see me, I wanted to be fashion designer. I became fashion designer. So I think that everything is possible. — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
It's good that there is more support of diversity but there is still a lot of resistance. I never saw it as fighting for a cause, though, for me it was spontaneous, I was doing what felt natural to me. I felt a part of it. I have always been attracted to what is new, interesting, funny, creative, the good… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share
I like the dynamism and the joy cabare creates. I have always taken my job very seriously, but have always liked to have fun,… — Jean Paul Gaultier Copy Share Image
I did not know that the planning for biological and chemical warfare was so widespread in England, and even in France before France fell.… — Nicholson Baker Copy Share Image
The talk shows in the States want celebrities, not authors. In France, it is different; writers are called upon to comment on everything. They… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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… — Nathalie Sarraute Copy Share Image
In France they spend six months training policemen, then they give them a gun and put them on the streets, and I don't know that that's enough. The film's not against the police - although I think that if someone wants to be a cop there's got to be a problem. — Mathieu Kassovitz Copy Share
France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French… — Tyler Cowen Copy Share Image
Creating a top team and being in a position to win the Tour de France will give me a nice feeling. But I know… — Fernando Alonso Copy Share Image
In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day. — Tom Brokaw Copy Share Image
Luckily, he was in the process of moving to France at the time, anyway. But if he had stayed in the States, I don't… — Terry Zwigoff Copy Share Image
I was in the South of France, in Saint-Tropez and I met her when it was totally unexpected. I was very lucky because she… — Bert Stern Copy Share Image
Banning the burkini doesn't produce terrorists. But it does make the people who are already alienated, who are already disenfranchised, I many cases, economically… — Michael Leiter Copy Share Image
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