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It is the fortune of France. [Fr., C'est la fortune de France.]
NICEPHORUS
Nothing has changed in France, there is only a Frenchman the more. [Fr., Il n'y a rien de change ...
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It will be like riding in the Tour de France. We've got hills, time trials, road races and wind. Of ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER
The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hof...
JACKIE CHAN
Every time I watch a Clint Eastwood film, I'm in touch with my feminine side, I've developed...
EDGAR WRIGHT
Sometimes, sport is just plain pleasing to the eye, like watching La Belle France flit by on televis...
GEORGE VECSEY
There never was a France like the Madonna that Charles de Gaulle worships in the fresco of his imagi...
DAVID SCHOENBRUN
We returned to an almost normal situation in Ile de France.
MICHEL GAUDIN
The most beautiful gift I have received in my life is the trust of Clint Eastwood. When you have thi...
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It could be the Clint Eastwood effect.
MICHAEL HAMMER
I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT
Adieu, delightful land of France! O my country so dear, which nourished my infancy! [Fr., Adieu,...
ANNE GABRIEL M. DE QUERLON
I would really love to work with Clint Eastwood.
RANDEEP HOODA
It's kind of like one of the 'Dirty Harry' movies with Clint Eastwood. At the end of the film Clint ...
DAVID MEYER
I love France. France is a nice place.
BUBBA WATSON
Herb Solo at that time was the head of MGM. I said, 'I want to live like Clint Eastwood.' Di...
DON RICKLES
France is great because she is France.
VICTOR HUGO
Manscaping and all of that is not my thing. I'm more of the Clint Eastwood kind of guy.
GERARD BUTLER
No one ever thought Clint Eastwood was funny, but he was.
ANNIE LEIBOVITZ
One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.
JAMES CRONIN
Thanks to the Tour de France, riding the Champs-Elysees has a great cycling history.
MARIANNE VOS
Clint Eastwood is aging beautifully. But someone like Burt Reynolds and others are practically destr...
WILLIAM DEVANE
It's pretty amazing when Chris starts talking to people who've been all over the world and they star...
CHIP CHERRY
George is a total professional and I expect him to be in top form for his next objective, the Tour d...
JOHAN BRUYNEEL
I have contacts with the Tour de France which keep me close to cycling.
BERNARD HINAULT
I'd really like to do a movie again with Tim Robbins and Clint Eastwood. They were really good g...
CAYDEN BOYD
Everyone wants to beat Michael on the track because it is the same as beating (Lance) Armstrong in t...
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France cannot be France without greatness.
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I am working as public relations director for the Tour de France and maintaining my farm.
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Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, ...
JOHN ORTBERG
In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.
ALAN PARSONS
This is a political decision because of pressure from France ... France has fraudulently interpreted...
MARTIN BESIEUX
I went from working with Spielberg to working with Clint Eastwood - I might as well just retire.
OWAIN YEOMAN
I did a movie with Clint Eastwood and I knew I wasn't going to be able to 'out-man' him.
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France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war.
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DOMINIQUE SOPO
Unhappy France! Unhappy King! [Fr., Malheureuse France! Malheureux roi!]
ETIENNE BEQUET
France is mourning,
JACQUES CHIRAC
France is back.
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MANOLO SAIZ
Dogs smoke in France
OZZY OSBOURNE
I think that in France, we should do like the French people.
MARINE LE PEN
Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.
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I hate France. It's like the whole country's on a diet
GORDON KORMAN
It's a blow for France to lose its captain like this,
BERNARD LAPORTE
France has more need of me than I have need of France.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
In New Orleans, France is alive and well.
GENE CASTILLON
I'm the first to admit that I like going to, or my memories at least of going to Clint Eastwood ...
NICOLAS CAGE
France has lost a battle. But France has not lost the war! (Proclamation, 18 June 1940)
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I got chills on the starting ramp. When I hit the hill, the crowd was deafening. It felt like I was ...
LEVI LEIPHEIMER
In the Caribbean, this is like another Olympics, seeing it is just the US and France out.
MARC BURNS
I like Ireland because it means I'm near France.
HARRY HARRISON
In America, sex is preached; in France, it is done.
FRITZ LANG
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MICHELE LEE
France and Germany have the manufacturing and skill base which is useful to us. France is our depend...
NARENDRA MODI
My husband is a general's chauffeur somewhere in France.
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I did a picture 40 years ago with Carroll O'Connor and Telly Savalas, God rest their souls, and ...
DON RICKLES
Dirty Harry, for example. Clint Eastwood was not a rogue cop. He was a maverick cop, but he was a go...
CHARLTON HESTON
You know, when you have some success in France, they don't like you,
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Going to war without France is like going deer hunting without your accordion.
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France is an absolute monarchy, tempered by ballads. [Fr., La France est une monarchie absolue, te...
UNKNOWN
In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.
JULIA CHILD
France has lived a long time - eight or nine centuries - and yet art in France, too, was derivative ...
RAOUL DUFY
I sleep every afternoon, go to bed at 9pm. I don't drink alcohol and I have no time for a girlfriend...
MATIWOS ZERAY
[For an actor who was then living in New York, Daniels said, working on a Woody Allen movie was some...
JEFF DANIELS
The Tour de France would make a great movie. Drugs, corruption, political chicanery, guys risking th...
ASIF KAPADIA
... but we’ll be back for dinner … especially if you’re having soup de jour!”

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KELLYN ROTH
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LANCE ARMSTRONG
I love the Western genre. In fact, one of my dreams is to play a cowboy on screen, like Clint Eastwo...
RAHUL KOHLI
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
GEORGE HERBERT
Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of m...
DIDIER DROGBA
France has a tradition in the fight between David and Goliath of protecting the little guy. France i...
FRANCOIS G. LAUGIER
I sleep every afternoon, go to bed at 9 pm. I don't drink alcohol and I have no time for a girlfrien...
MATIWOS ZERAY
The masses in highly industrialized countries like England, the United States, or France are largely...
CZESLAW MILOSZ
One knows in France 685 different ways of preparing eggs. [Fr., On connoit en France 685 manieres ...
ANNE GABRIEL M. DE QUERLON
Ye sons of France, awake to glory! Hark! Hark! what myriads bid you rise! Your children, wiv...
CLAUDE JOSEPH ROUGET DE LISLE
Have the French for friends, but not for neighbors.
NICEPHORUS
Yet, who can help loving the land that has taught us Six hundred and eighty-five ways to dress egg...
THOMAS MOORE
Gay, sprightly, land of mirth and social ease Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.
OLIVER GOLDSMITH
The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is alw...
WILLIAM COWPER
A nation of monkeys with the throat of parrots. [Fr., Une natione de singes a larynx de parroquets...
EMMANUEL JOSEPH SIEYES
France is getting younger. I am not.
RICHARD COBB
When France has a cold, all Europe sneezes
KLEMENS VON METTERNICH
Apple now has to either open up or close down [in France].
ALEXANDER ROSS
I found the crown of France lying on the ground, and I picked it up with a sword.
NAPOLEON BONAPARTE
I have decided to quit 'Les Bleus'. I'm 32. I know I have already given France the best I could give...
LILIAN THURAM
I don't know how many genuine nature lovers are there in France. They are finding everything odd abo...
APURVA GAGLANI
The fact is that cycling in France is in the process of going through one of its toughest periods, ....
LANCE ARMSTRONG
Everyone has to judge for themselves, ... Lance realizes where he is now is because of the Tour de F...
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I follow the Tour de France about as much as the average North American person. I only know of it be...
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them
ANATOLE FRANCE
We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be
ANATOLE FRANCE
Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water.
ANATOLE FRANCE
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pli...
ANATOLE FRANCE
A woman must decide between a man who women like, and then have no security, or a man who women don�...
ANATOLE FRANCE
I would define a book as a work of magic whence escape, all kinds of images to trouble the souls and...
ANATOLE FRANCE
To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
ANATOLE FRANCE
In every well-governed state, wealth is a sacred thing; in democracies it is the only sacred thing
ANATOLE FRANCE
One thing above all gives charm to men's thoughts, and this is unrest. A mind that is not uneasy irr...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.
ANATOLE FRANCE
We are not happy that he has had a progression of pushing the envelope. We expect everybody to be ag...
BRIAN FRANCE
The average man does not know what to do with his life, yet wants another one which will last foreve...
ANATOLE FRANCE
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that o...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The faculty of doubting is rare among men. A few choice spirits carry the germs of it in them, but t...
ANATOLE FRANCE
J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
America, where thanks to Congress, there are forty million laws to enforce the Ten Commandments
ANATOLE FRANCE
It was one of the deadliest and heaviest feelings of my life to feel that I was no longer a boy. Fro...
ANATOLE FRANCE
He despises men with tenderness
ANATOLE FRANCE
Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCE
Religion has done love a great servive by making it a sin.
ANATOLE FRANCE
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by c...
ANATOLE FRANCE
The first virtue of all really great men is that they are sincere
ANATOLE FRANCE
The impotence of God is infinite
ANATOLE FRANCE
If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a crue...
ANATOLE FRANCE
It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly
ANATOLE FRANCE
The future is a convenient place for dreams
ANATOLE FRANCE
A writer is rarely so well inspired as when he talks about himself
ANATOLE FRANCE