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We need the real, nation-wide terror which reinvigorates the country and through which the Great French Revolution achieved glory. -- Vladimir Lenin
Great French design is often about unexpected touches. -- Candice Olson
I am not a great French woman. George Sand, Marguerite Duras and Simone de Beauvoir are great French women. -- Juliette Binoche
In his lifetime the great French impressionist painter Corot painted 2000 canvases. Of that number, 3000 are in the United States. -- Morley Safer
I called the great French violinist Jean-Luc Ponty and I said 'So, who's the new cat? Who's got the stuff? And he said Zach Brock. -- Stanley Clarke
I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing. -- Manuel Puig
The Messianic era is the present age, which began to germinate with the teachings of Spinoza, and finally came into historical existence with the great French Revolution. -- Moses Hess
There's great wine from Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile and, of course, California. But there's nothing like a really great French wine, they're so well balanced. The better the wine, the less you feel the effects I think. -- Ridley Scott
I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order. -- Peter York
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! -- John F. Kennedy
For example, a few years ago, a great French philosopher, Roger Garaudy, wrote a scientific book. He did not offend, curse, or insult anyone. He wrote a scientific research of an academic nature, in which he discussed the alleged Jewish Holocaust in Germany. He proved that this Holocaust is a myth. -- Hassan Nasrallah
In my early days, I copied the great French chefs, like most chefs do. Copying is not bad. Copying and not recognizing that you are copying is bad. For me, when I go to a restaurant and am served a dish influenced by something we created at elBulli, if it's well done, it makes me extremely happy. -- Ferran Adria
The great watershed of modern poetry is French, more than English. -- Robert Morgan
That amenity which the French have developed into a great art . . . conversation. -- Cornelia Otis Skinner
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After 10 years of French torture - psychological torture - it's great to do an American movie. -- Emmanuelle Beart
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra -- Gerry Mulligan
Only the French, I guess, really use tenor and alto to any great extent in the orchestra. -- Gerry Mulligan
French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance. -- Leonard Mlodinow
Logos and branding are so important. In a big part of the world, people cannot read French or English--but are great in remembering signs -- Karl Lagerfeld
I don't ever want to stop learning. And I really want to learn French fluently. It would be great to go and live in France. -- Alexa Chung
I think the French have a romantic cliche that Englishmen have great style, great music, irony and sense of humour. Well, sometimes cliches are true. -- Josephine de La Baume
France turned a deaf ear to the demands, but Ho had succeeded in attracting great publicity in progressive French circles to the situation in Indochina. -- Wilfred Burchett
The great themes of Canadian history are as follows: Keeping the Americans out, keeping the French in, and trying to get the Natives to somehow disappear. -- Will Ferguson
The French Revolution will be found to have had great influence on the strength of parties, and on the subsequent political transactions of the United States. -- John Marshall
The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848. -- C. L. R. James
The French suffered such catastrophic losses in the First World War. It really was the end of them as a great world power, although they, quote, 'won.' -- Edward Herrmann

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