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I'm much better known in France and Germany and Spain than I am in the U.S. When I go to Russia, I get mobbed; I have groups of fans waiting for me out in the hotel lobby, waiting for me to come down off the elevator. In China, I almost got beat up because people were trying to get me to do a drawing for them.
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If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.
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If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare that I am a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German and Germany will declare that I am a Jew.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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In France, a chemist named Pilatre de Rozier tested the flammability of hydrogen by gulping a mouthful and blowing across an open flame, proving at a stroke that hydrogen is indeed explosively combustible and that eyebrows are not necessarily a permanent feature of one's face.
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In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
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Innocence most often is a good fortune and not a virtue.
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Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.
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It is almost systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no difference between right and wrong.
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It is not really our country so much is the problem, it's sort of the parasitic relationship that Canada, and France, and other countries have towards us.
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It is only the poor who pay cash, and that not from virtue, but because they are refused credit.
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It is well for the heart to be naive and the mind not to be.
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It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
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Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.
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Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.
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