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I went to Brown to be a French professor, and I didn't know what I was doing except that I loved French. When I got to Paris and I could speak French, I know how much it helped me to establish relationships with Karl Lagerfeld, with the late Yves St. Laurent. French, it just helps you if you're in fashion. The French people started style.

~Andre Leon Talley

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I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.

~Bernard Arnault

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People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.

~Bernard Pivot

Topics: Complain Even Feeling French French People Impatient Intolerant Language Our People Sometimes Speak Very Well Who

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I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

~Bruno Dumont

Topics: Been Before Believe Bit Catholic Christianity French French People God Obsessed People Present Question Redemption Religious Sacred Same Same Time See Spirituality Stupid Terms Time Well

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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.

~Carla Bruni

Topics: Elegant France French French People Know Me Must People Proud Represent Want You

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French women have been made beautiful by the French people - they're very aware of their bodies, the way they move and speak, they're very confident of their sexuality. French society's made them like that.

~Charlotte Rampling

Topics: Aware Beautiful Been Bodies Confident French French People Like Made Move People Sexuality Society Speak Them Very Way Women

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They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

~David Sedaris

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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.

~Edmund White

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French pharmacies probably feel like CVS to French people, but to me, they feel like a real-life version of 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory.'

~Emily Weiss

Topics: Chocolate Factory Feel French French People Like Me People Real-Life Version

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Our mission... it will be difficult, it will take time, it will be demanding for all men and women... will be to act in such a way that French people of the Muslim faith are always more proud of being French than of being Muslim.

~Emmanuel Macron

Topics: Act Always Being Demanding Difficult Faith French French People Men Men And Women Mission More Muslim Our People Proud Such A Way Take Than Time Way Will Women

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