Jim Harrison
Novelist, Poet
"There is a neurologist, a woman over at Harvard who wanted me to come talk to them, and in France I have a lot of readers in the sciences. I can't tell you why."
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Mahatma Gandhi
Political Leader
"Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French."
James May
Television presenter, journalist, and author
"France is a country you have to drive through to get to Italy. That's all it's there for."
Lewis Carroll
Author, Mathematician
"The further off from England the nearer is to France- Then turn not pale, beloved snail, but come and join the dance."
Malcolm X
Civil Rights Activist, Minister
"On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there."
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"Nowhere but in France are people so strictly observant of great matters and so disdainfully indulgent about small ones."
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"I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ."
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"France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France."
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"Far less envy in America than in France."
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"Since visiting the abatoirs of S. France I have stopped eating meat."
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"We all make mistakes. Luckily for us, there are very few mistakes that cant be solved with a suitable application of either lipstick or hand grenades" - Frances Brown"
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"France was long a despotism tempered by epigrams."
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"France always has plenty men of talent, but it is always deficient in men of action and high character."
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"I love France. The French respect your privacy."
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"A lot of my travel is at least partly work, visiting schools and libraries, especially in France."
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"Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable."
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"In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy."
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"It is the end. But of what? The end of France? No. The end of kings? Yes."
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"Although all new ideas are born in France, they are not readily adopted there. It seems that they must first commence to prosper in a foreign country."
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"France has more need of me than I have need of France."
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"Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working."
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"If Bush wins, I'm going to leave the country and spend the rest of my life in France."
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"I like France quite a lot, and I like Italy."
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"What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country."
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"I discovered feminism around 1970-72-precisely the time when feminism began to exist in France. Before that, there was no feminism."
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