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The French colonisation of Algeria lasted a long time: 132 years.

~Ahmed Ben Bella

Topics: Algeria French Lasted Long Long Time Time Years

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The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.

~Ahmed Ben Bella

Topics: Algeria Army Created Fight First Five France French Led Liberation Movement Nothing Organization People Size Small Some Tens Territory Throughout Times Were Which

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In terms of foods for me, I think I have more of the usual associations - foods from childhood that I associate with care and love, from relatives or special restaurants like the kind elderly man who dusted seasoning salt on French fries at the corner burger joint.

~Aimee Bender

Topics: Associate Associations Burger Care Childhood Corner Elderly Foods French French Fries Fries Joint Kind Like Love Man Me More Relatives Restaurants Salt Special Terms Think Usual Who I Think

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If somebody had started on a remake of French Kiss before I announced my own film, I would have dropped my subject. If someone else starts after me, what am I to do?

~Ajay Devgan

Topics: After Am Announced Before Dropped Else Film French Had Kiss Me My Own Own Remake Somebody Someone Started Starts Subject Would

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Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews.

~Alain De Botton

Topics: Aristocrat Biography Different Family French Immigrant Interpreted Jews Sometimes Upbringing Very Were

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In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Because Classic Contemporary Cuisine Culinary Customers Develop Developed Different Each French Influence Like London Mediterranean Monaco More Paris Restaurant Sensibility

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The relentless pursuit of being different is very French.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Being Being Different Different French Pursuit Relentless Very

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The Mediterranean is in my DNA. I'm fine inland for about a week, but then I yearn for a limitless view of the sea, for the colours and smells of the Italian and French Riviera.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: About Colours Fine French Italian Limitless Mediterranean Sea Smells Then View Week Yearn Dna

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The most classic French dessert around the holidays is the Christmas log, with butter cream. Two flavors. Chocolate and coconut. My first job in the kitchen when I was a boy was to make these Christmas logs.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Around Boy Butter Chocolate Christmas Classic Coconut Cream Dessert First First Job Flavors French Holidays Job Kitchen Log Make Most Two

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I have a very nice garden and extraordinary markets, where there are products from the earth and the sea, in the French Basque country.

~Alain Ducasse

Topics: Country Earth Extraordinary French Garden Markets Nice Products Sea Very Where

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