"remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French."
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"...the great merit of the place is that one can arrange one's life here exactly as one pleases...there are facilities for every kind of habit and taste, and everything is accepted and understood."
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"When you meet the man [Brassai] you see at once that he is equipped with no ordinary eyes. And the sharpness of vision and depth of insight are revealed in Brassai's lifelong photographic exploration of Paris - its people, places, and things."
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"It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris."
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"He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little Poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Otherwise he has to translate, and that slows him down."
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"What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing."
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"I want to live in Paris for a couple of years. I'm dying to do the Josephine Baker story. I really want to be there and do it. It's certainly my intention to do it."
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"I wholeheartedly welcomed Charles de Gaulle eulogy of French valour, to which he attributed the liberation of Paris."
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"Paris is my favorite city in the world. The men are so beyond gorgeous, especially the humpy Arab men. But I could never live in Paris, it's a boutique city."
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"To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!"
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"Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs."
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"I don't know where there can be so many pianists as in Paris, so many asses and so many virtuosi."
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"A mountain in labour shouted so loud that everyone, summoned by the noise, ran up expecting that she would be delivered of a city bigger than Paris; she brought forth a mouse."
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"Im completely English, but I grew up in Paris and went to school here. My parents moved when I was five."
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"Add two letters two paris and it's paradise."
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"Our tongues have fallen madly in love and gotten married and moved to Paris."
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"Yea, Paris is a festive ton -- a festive Ton for all! Skate o'er on joy -- Thin crust of gilded, polished joy! What matters it if Hell's beneath?"
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"Paris was sad. One of the saddest towns: weary of its now-mechanical sensuality, weary of the tension of money, money, money, weary even of resentment and conceit, just weary to death, and still not sufficiently Americanized or Londonized to hide the weariness under a mechanical jig-jig-jig!"
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"Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat."
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"The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement."
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