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England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
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For reasons I didn't understand, I felt I needed to learn how to cook the food of France and knew that I was going to have to get over to the country: to Paris, I'd always assumed.
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France can never accept that it is no longer a dominating power in the world of culture. This is true both of the French right and the French left. They keep thinking that Americans are primitive cowboys or farmers who do not understand anything.
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
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France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country.
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France is a country where the money falls apart in your hands and you can't tear the toilet paper.
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France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper.
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France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.
The Guardian (Dec. 24, 1984) -
France may claim the happiest marriages in the world, but the happiest divorces in the world are ''made in America.''
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France was a long despotism tempered by epigrams.
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France, for example, loves at the same time history and the drama, because the one explores the vast destinies of humanity, and the other the individual lot of man.
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Godard is incredibly brilliant, the things he says. Apparently here in France, the most interesting thing when a new film of his is going to come out are his press conferences, because he's so brilliant.
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Here, you go to the supermarket and you have wipes to clean your hands before shopping. No, we don't have that in France, but we recycle.
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
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I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.
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I have heard some say... that such [homosexual] practices are allowed in France and in other NATO countries. We are not French, and we are not other nationals. We are British, thank God!
Speech in House of Lords, 24 May 1965 -
I thank fate for having made me born poor. Poverty taught me the true value of the gifts useful to life.
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I think you get better at staring into space. Especially living in the South of France.
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I want there to be no peasant in my realm so poor that he will not have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.
Original:Je veux que les paysans mettent la poule au pot tous les dimanches.
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I'd love to follow the Tour de France one day. It's a really exciting spectacle. I've only seen it once as it was coming into Paris and that was very exciting for me. I have memories of that.
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