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If Germany, my beloved fatherland, of whom you know I am proud, will not accept me, then must I, in the name of God, again make France or England richer by one capable German - and to the shame of the German nation.

If I become president, France will not continue with the same policies as under Nicolas Sarkozy - both in domestic policy and in foreign and European policy.

If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.

If living in France bothers some people, they should feel free to leave the country.

If the only obstacle to the renewal and modernization of France is a choice of personnel, I am completely convinced that the president will make the right choice. What is at stake is not Alain Juppe but France.

If the search is for examples that contradict the predictions of standard economic models, a good rule of thumb is to start in France.

If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.

If you become a chef because you're obsessed by becoming a celebrity, getting my ass kicked and working my nuts off the way I did in France and getting pushed around those kitchens wasn't about becoming famous.

I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.

If you have to have 25 French paratroopers to guard a single synagogue, it means that life is not healthy in France for Jews

I had lived in France before graduate school, but because of Spain, I had a lot of the characters go and spend a good bit of time in Spain.

I had to inspect all fighter units in Russia, Africa, Sicily, France, and Norway. I had to be everywhere.

I had very, very little training in taking an exam to determine a scientist's life in France.

I have great satisfaction in stating that our relations with France, Russia, and other powers continue on the most friendly basis.

I hate the French because they are all slaves and wear wooden shoes.

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or criticism from one's neighbors.

I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.

I'll tell you what I love. Sending back bottles of wine that aren't right in restaurants in France! Whoa! I love the French, but I do find their wine snobbery something unbearable.

I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.

I have recently started acting lessons in south France, and I intend to commence acting lessons at Rada.

I have to admit that WWII France was not at all on my radar for Kristin Hannah.

I like going to France, because no one knows who I am.

I'm going to tell you the story about the geese which fly 5,000 miles from Canada to France. They fly in V-formation but the second ones don't fly. They're the subs for the first ones. And then the second ones take over - so it's teamwork.

I love France. The French respect your privacy.

I might have had trouble saving France in 1946 - I didn't have television then.

I'm in a very lucky position. You have to remember that 95 percent of all actors aren't working. I'm actually able to go to France and work. It's a situation I couldn't have dreamt up.

In England, philosophers are honoured, respected; they rise to public offices, they are buried with the kings... In France warrants are issued against them, they are persecuted, pelted with pastoral letters: Do we see that England is any the worse for it?

I'm very happy in France making movies.

I'm not an American actor. I'm a French actor. I'll continue in France. If I could make another silent movie in America, I'd like to!

In America, you look at food as bad and guilty. In France, we love food and we enjoy food; food is pleasure.

In France, everybody realized that God exists, and that he is back in the French international team. God is back, there is little left to say.

I never left France for Hollywood nor stashed my money in Switzerland.

In France, anyone can use your music on like a TV show or whatever - they don't need to ask permission. It's almost like a child when it has its own life.

In France every man is either an anvil or a hammer; he is a beater or must be beaten.

In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

In France one must adapt oneself to the fragrance of a urinal.

In #‎ France we have a saying, 'Joie de Vivre,' which actually doesn't exist in the English language. It means looking at your life as something that is to be taken with great pleasure and enjoy it.

In France you cannot not have lunch. If you stopped the French from having lunch, you will have a second revolution, I can tell you this. Not going to work - it is part of the French privilege.

In France, you're with the crew, and you have lunch with them. It's more like a family.

In France a woman will not go to sleep until she has talked over affairs of state with her lover or her husband.

In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

In France, they make you feel that you cannot be two things at the same time. You can't be French and Arabic; you can't be French and Muslim.

In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.

In France, even heresy rapidly hardens into dogma.

"In France," Marcel said with wintry dignity, "accidents occur in the bedroom, not the kitchen.

In France a lot of songs were ruined by their associations with commercials. But so far no Apple commercial has ruined a song for me.

In France, it is television that pays for films to be made and I received all of my funding from TV: two television channels, government funding and distributor contribution (Wild Bunch). My films are low-budget, and not expensive [to make].

In France, I would like to worth with Patrice Chereau, who made Queen Margot.

In France, you can sell a lot, but nobody outside of France ever hears of it.

In France, it's very suspect when you have a success.