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Who can doubt that between the English and the French, between the Scotch and the Irish, there are differences of character which have profoundly affected and still affect the course of history? Goldwin Smith

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You know how arrogant the French are - extraordinary. Gordon Ramsay

You Arrogant Extraordinary Know French How

The United States dollar took another pounding on German, French and British exchanges this morning, hitting the lowest point ever known in West Germany. Gordon Sinclair

After the French Revolution, the world money power shifted from Paris to London. For three generations, the British maintained an old-fashioned colonial empire, as well as a modern empire based on London's primacy in the money markets. Gore Vidal

It is true, as Sartre once wrote, referring to French Army atrocities in Algeria, that the real tragedy in our time is that any of us can be, interchangeably, victim or torturer. Gore Vidal

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French was my first language. Greg Sestero

Language First French

For me, the French new wave is Truffaut and Rohmer. Godard I sometimes have trouble with because he's very much of a director's director. I feel Truffaut is such a humanist, and I always go in that direction. Greta Gerwig

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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied. H. R. McMaster

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Some years ago, I read Thomas Carlyle's history of the French Revolution, and I was very taken by the way he told the story, and it seemed as though I was right in the middle of things. And it took me a while to figure out how he achieved that effect, and one of the ways was to write it in the present tense. H. W. Brands

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It wasn't a new idea. During the war against the French we had this kind of broadcast for the French soldiers. Hanoi Hannah

War Broadcast Soldiers Kind Had Idea New French New Idea Against

I come from Yorkshire in England where we like to eat chip sandwiches - white bread, butter, tomato ketchup and big fat french fries cooked in beef dripping. Helen Fielding

The city and province were given up to anarchy; the coloured people, elated with victory, proclaimed the slaughter of all whites, except the English, French, and American residents. Henry Walter Bates

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But the French writers always had more originality and independence than others, and that regulator, which elsewhere was religion, long since ceased to exist for them. Henryk Sienkiewicz

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Generally, the French highly promote culture and the arts, and photography is in their blood. Herb Ritts

Photography Culture Promote Generally Highly French Blood Arts

'Deracine' is French for uprooting, or someone who's been displaced from their natural environment. Hidetaka Miyazaki

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I love chicken fingers, I love French fries. I love desserts. I'm not just into dessert or just into savoury food. I love it all. I'm a pig. I love food. So it takes a lot of discipline to eat healthy. Holly Madison

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I probably have about four or five cups of coffee a day. I make myself an espresso macchiato when I wake, which is a shot of espresso and just a dollop of steamed milk. Then, if I'm going to do some work at home, I would make myself a French press. It's the best way to make conventional coffee. Howard Schultz

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I always admire the French and the Italians who are very devoted to their marriages. They take them extremely seriously, but it is understood that there might be other visitors at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. You just never boast about. They never say anything, but that's what keeps marriages together. Hugh Grant

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'The Lair of the White Worm' is quite a strange film. It's difficult to be good when you're saying lines that have been translated from Spanish to English by someone who speaks French. Hugh Grant

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After the World Cup, the next two or three days there is a lot of celebration, a lot of obligation, towards the country, towards the French Federation, towards the fans. And then, after that, you feel so empty - mentally and physically. It's a long tournament; it demands a lot of energy and a lot of emotion. Hugo Lloris

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The French nation is more important than football. Hugo Lloris

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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time. Ian Hamilton Finlay

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I talked about the persecution of Algerians and told about racism in my childhood. And it was as if, after that, I wasn't French anymore. Isabelle Adjani

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