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Quotes by French Authors
"I wish I had invented blue jeans. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes."
"Where observation is concerned, chance favors only the prepared mind."
"Myth is neither a lie nor a confession: it is an inflexion."
"The word impossible is not in my dictionary."
"Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has."
"One must live the way one thinks or end up thinking the way one has lived."
"It is incomprehensible that God should exist, and it is incomprehensible that he should not exist."
"The marvels of daily life are exciting; no movie director can arrange the unexpected that you find in the street."
"I cannot help it - in spite of myself, infinity torments me."
"You know what black hatred women feel toward me as soon as they see me, until I return inside my shell, they use every possible weapon. As soon as a generous man tries to help me out, a woman is here to hold his arm and prevent him from acting."
"A man is sometimes as different from himself as he is from others."
"A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position."
"I know of no country in which there is so little independence of mind and real freedom of discussion as in America."
"Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true."
"When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die."
"Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you."
"Perfect numbers like perfect men are very rare."
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter."
"You just keep pushing. You just keep pushing. I made every mistake that could be made. But I just kept pushing."
"For this to make sense, of course, it would have to be a fair financial deal for us. But I think this could be the occasion for us to build a true partnership in content. And we're especially interested because interactive services are a key field for us."
"I walked past her, thinking: Is this what happens to the youth of women? Those whom we have met in the past, if suddenly we desire to see them again, have they become old? Is the young woman whom we desire like a character on the stage, when, unable to secure the actress who created the part, the management is obliged to entrust it to a new star? But then it is no longer the same."
"The "Western" is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself."
"I believe Business Objects is on the cusp of becoming a multi-billion-dollar sales company. There is tremendous growth potential for business intelligence."
"Ambition never is in a greater hurry that I; it merely keeps pace with circumstances and with my general way of thinking."
"When the seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea."
"Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never."
"Knowing how to paint and to use one's colors rightly has not any connection with originality. This originality consists in properly expressing your own impressions."
"A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man."
"Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind."
"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
"All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; but all spiritual pleasures more in fruition than in expectation."
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