"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when……" — Josephine Baker
"I like Frenchmen very much, because even when they insult you they do it so nicely."
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45 Quotes by Josephine Baker
Josephine Baker has 45 quotes on this site.
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The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
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I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on.
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I have walked into the palaces of kings and queens and into the houses of presidents. And much more. But…
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I believe if the white and colored people could get together and be let alone, they would understand each other…
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I was a devil in other countries, and I was a little devil in America, too.
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I remember when Lindbergh arrived in Paris, I was one of the first persons to know about his landing, because…
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I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.
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You are on the eve of a complete victory. You can't go wrong. The world is behind you.
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Art is an elastic sort of love.
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I did take the blows [of life], but I took them with my chin up, in dignity, because I so…
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Beautiful? It's all a question of luck. I was born with good legs. As for the rest... beautiful, no. Amusing,…
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The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.
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More Frenchmen Quotes
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one of 22 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I worked at a factory owned by Germans, at coal pits owned by Frenchmen, and at a chemical plant owned…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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He had one illusion - France; and one disillusion - mankind, including Frenchmen.
— John Maynard Keynes
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I know a lot of Americans in Paris who have married Frenchmen. They keep bringing up their experience, the clash…
— Leslie Caron
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This (Paris,France) wouldn't be a bad place, but it's full of Frenchmen.
— Bobby Heenan
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The failure of the reformation to capture France had left for the Frenchmen no half-way house between infallibility and infidelity;…
— Will Durant
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Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has…
— Victor Hugo
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An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards.
— Austin O'Malley
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Die Mathematiker sind eine Art Franzosen. Spricht man zu ihnen, so übersetzen sie alles in ihre eigene Sprache, und so…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
— Winston Churchill
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We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians…
— Meriwether Lewis
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No wonder we keep testing positive in their bicycle races. Everyone looks like they're full of testosterone when they're surrounded…
— Argus Hamilton
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Of women, the most we can say, not being Frenchmen, is that they are burrowing animals.
— Lawrence Durrell
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