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Obviously with this role, she can now access me as much as everyone else. I will be helping her out in Europe this year leading up to the French and Wimbledon but other than that we haven't really discussed what will happen next.

No one could touch the home cooking of an Italian woman. French women, they are very intelligent, very sexy - but they don't like to cook.

No obstacle, notably economic or financial, will get in the way of useful measures to protect the health of the French people,

My first day was on the Champs-Elysees roundabout, which is about five lanes. That was my first day behind the wheel of a French car.

Most alarming is the apparent disregard for the potential impact on the French cinema industry, which will be hardest hit if this vote is upheld. We are hopeful as this bill works its way through the legislative process, those with an eye toward fostering French cinema will prevail.

My father is Jewish, and I look exactly like him... My mother is British, but she's of French extraction.

Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.

Now, there's been a persistent legend and a lot of slogans, and the formation of societies for the fostering of Franco-American friendship, which have had some effect, but there is a strong admiration in this country for the culture of France, and generally speaking I think the French find the Americans have been stout supporters of them in many of their periods of distress.

Now that years have gone by and I look back at it and I can put one and two together, it was my childhood memories and cultural feelings and beliefs in the whole tie-in of the French Canadian/Portuguese thing.

New Orleans has always been cherished for its unique French Quarter, its fabulous cuisine, and music to suit all tastes.

Peoria has the French roots, ... So, we've tried to keep a little bit.

Personally, I think if you add french fries you are going to ruin the taste of it.

My teacher, Josef Gingold, a student of the French school, always loved the music of Saint-Saens and Henri Vieuxtemps and all the French repertoire.

Nobody cooks at home like they cook in restaurants; they'd all be dead, ... Home cooking is not trendy at all. French cooking really consists of some few hundred recipes handed down. Everyone has a little twist on what is a classic recipe.

Nobody in France would ever say 'He's a Jewish novelist' or 'She's a black novelist,' even though people do write about those subjects. It would look absurd to a French person to go into a bookstore and see a 'Gay Studies' section.

On outside we are satisfied with the escalating development of our relations with France, and the French role in stabilization in our area.

One of the lasting ironies in classical music, ... we use this piece written by a Russian to celebrate victory over the French in the 19th century.

One of the greatest joys in my life was giving a lecture in French at the College de France.

I was six years old when I learned to play the guitar, and only because I had been trying to learn to play the French horn. I came home one day, and my parents had taken the horn away because they said it was too painful. I highly recommend Taylor guitars. They practically play themselves.

I was sick and tired of reading other people's epigraphs. They all seemed to be in ancient Greek, middle French or, when they were translated, they never seemed to relate to the book at hand. Basically, they seemed to be there just to baffle you and to impress you with how smart the writer is.

I was shocked when Harold told me about it. An incumbent shouldn't be able to make promises like that to try and win votes... To say he would make sure of R3m in grants and a French Test is ludicrous.

I was shocked. I almost dropped the french fries.

I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.

I would rather have a German division in front of me than a French one behind me.

I would have loved it - without the French

I wish to assure the French government and people that their taxpayers' funds will be used in a diligent, transparent and accountable manner.

I would eventually leave the business in 1999 to work full-time as a writer, but during the previous decade, I would advise French businessmen on how to succeed in Germany; tell Americans what to do in Eastern Europe; show the Spanish how to become more like the Americans. I spent one particularly haunting year advising bankers in Mexico.

I would also point out that many governments that chose not to support this war - certainly, the French president, Jacques Chirac, as I recall in April of last year, referred to Iraq's possession of WMD.

If we have to shine flashlights at the stage, the Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival will take place as scheduled, March 30-April 2, in our beloved French Quarter.

I grew up in a Mauritian bubble in France... I had the feeling of not belonging, but still living with French culture.

I have heard what the French journalists have said and they need a new job. It is false information that they have disseminated everywhere. Renault want to stay in F1 but only under certain conditions, like the other major manufacturers Mercedes-Benz, Honda, BMW and Toyota. They all want to see the same conditions.

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.

I discovered the slip dress, which I think is one of the more French things because when you take off your clothes, even when to go into a shop to buy something, or you're going to Riccardo Tisci to try on a suit, it's like having protection.

I can feel it happening. I (could) tell after I lost in the French Open to Mary Pierce. She had an unbelievable run and I played close. But close is not good enough for me. I want to get to a final.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.

I always watch the French news on the Internet while having my breakfast.

I am very satisfied that the French team can once again count on Zinedine Zidane and Claude Makelele ... very talented players who play at the highest level for their clubs.

But when push came to shove, ... I think it stuck in the Gallic craw that a) I was English and b) I had been in a pop group though the French are better at allowing movement between disciplines. Then Nadine died, and we put the project on the shelf. I picked it up again in '95.

'Buncha Losers' comedy is one of those homegrown American art forms, up there with infomercials and Elvis-shaped soap carvings. No other civilization could have invented it. The French took a stab with Sartre's 'No Exit,' but then they had to ruin it with a lesson at the end.

But French legislators aren't just looking at Apple. They're looking ahead to a time when most entertainment is online, a shift with profound consequences for consumers and culture in general. French lawmakers want to protect the consumer from one or two companies holding the keys to all of its culture, just as Microsoft holds the keys to today's desktop computers... Apple may not qualify as a literal monopoly -- there are lots of ways to get music and buying online accounts for only a small fraction of total music sales. But the sliver it does control it controls almost completely, and it's not out of the question to suggest that this sliver will ultimately become the only way people will buy music in the future.

China is a big country with a lot of chinese people living there Former French President Charles De Gaulle

I'm a sucker for French fries - I love that they're salty!

I'm almost embarrassed. I took two years of French in high school, and I hadn't the slightest clue what he was saying.

I'm always fetishizing the French woman and French taste and style. My assistant will make fun of me because every time we're picking the direction of a collection, I say the same thing: 'I want it to be really French.'

I have a French book with the period picked out, and I am working on something right now that I don't want to talk about at all.

I have been contacted by shareholders -- French and foreign ... who are worried that some decisions could be taken which will not value their shares.

I have an English identity and a French identity. When I'm in France, I'm more outgoing. And the French part of me cooks, whereas the English part of me writes.

I hate the naturalism, ... especially in the French films. They don't care about the picture. ... And they speak and they speak. It's a drama in a kitchen, a couple fighting.

I find it extraordinary that without even proper consideration, the French government has decided it will reject these proposals.

If I pleaded guilty to a mistake while I was home secretary, it wasn't that I didn't get tough - my God, I put immigration and security officials on French soil for the first time.

I feel good and hopefully can raise my game for the French Open next week.

I feel fresh after having such a frustrating feeling around the time of the French Open and Wimbledon,

I feel like I missed Wimbledon two years in a row, and I feel I've missed the French two years in a row, ... I was out on the court in Paris and I literally couldn't move. Everything was hurting me...to sit down, it was hurting me to stand, it was hurting me to walk. And it was just helpless. I don't like that feeling.

I did not have a cold before or during the French Open. I didn't take any cold medicine at that time.

I can tell you in Washington we have no better partner right now on most of these issues that occupy the Security Council... than the French government.

Given the attitude of the French and the Germans, I don't think there's anything we can do that will convince them, because I don't think they want to be convinced.

French unemployment is stabilizing. We see further declines in the jobless rate.

French society was a lot more violent in the 1960s and 70s,

French retailing has shown signs of strength. Germany on the other hand does not look so good.

French people want us to re-establish the order of the republic, ... We will answer their expectation, because we can't build a future in violence.

French people should be prioritised; clandestine immigrants get 100 per cent refund on healthcare while two-thirds of French people can't afford medical help. Charity begins at home.

French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.

French inflation figures surprised on the up-side for a change. Normally they come in below expectations.

French films are increasingly taking pride of place. The number of French films at the Festival is second only to the US and Canada.

French culture is known for many great attributes, some of which probably have nothing to do with food, wine, and romance.

French Camp has gotten a lot better since then.

French authorities should be encouraged for reporting this so quickly and this allows them, as well as local farmers, to take extra monitoring precautions.

French and Italian cooking have been elevated to a really high art form.

Frederic has been in pain for a month but he has played very good games with Toulouse in the Heineken Cup and the French championship and we are confident he will be at his best.

Freddie offers a wealth of experience through his involvement with National League One team Barrow as well as the French international team. Freddie will also add a little more pace and depth to our backline.

France is clearly going to defend French troops and French citizens that are under attack.

France has not only built a bureaucratic barrier against American culture, it has constructed a notorious intellectual case against it as well. The French spend hundreds of millions of dollars subsidizing film production, extend interest-free loans to designated filmmakers, and have placed quotas not only on imports but on television time.

From this point of view, as a French - I have no complex about this, of inferiority. And I try to have no complex of superiority.

I expect it's because the French got fourth. We skated good and got first place it's not my business if the audience isn't happy.

I expected that we would be playing on clay. The Europeans tend to go for clay. The match is in April, which is the start of the red clay season, so it gives our players a chance to play on the same surface through the French Open.

I expect the longest ride is the one coming from Union Township and French Creek,

If a big French bank and a big British tank were talking of a merger, there would be scope for things to go awry if it's not clear who is running it.

I don't think I was at the level I was at the French Open or the other times I played her, but Mary played well,

For the record, there is a French project to make a theatrical adaptation of The Satanic Verses, so maybe that's a start.

For me to go casual is not to go simple. To me, it is to be able to bring back the art of tradition and the soul of French food and my interpretation of that.

If the elites listened, they would understand why French young people like me are joining our ranks.

If the French were German in their essence, then how the Germans would admire them!

If the French vote 'no,' most analysts believe it would destroy any possibility of Chirac standing again for the presidency in 2007,

He was deeply and fundamentally Irish. But we know that at one point he also became French. He loved France, he chose to live here, he wrote in French. It's why we're here, French and Irish together, to pay tribute to this great man.

Had the technology to dispose off the toxic ship been cheap and easy, the French themselves would have taken care of the ship instead of giving away the business to India.

He drives a Volkswagen Beetle around in an age when you have university presidents who have French chefs in their houses.

He not only saw pictures of African art in books; he was exposed to African art from many of the former French colonies. He learnt from Africa how to turn convex into concave, how to turn chubby cheeks into hollow cheeks.

What else can it be? ... Do you think I'm going to trust some guy in a French lab to open my samples and say they're positive and announce that to the world and not give me the chance to defend myself? That's ludicrous. There is no way you can do that.

There is a disconnect between the outlook for the French economy, which is a bit lower, and the perception of the global economy, which is up.

There is among French men and women a formidable desire, a taste for entrepreneurship.

We made it quite clear to the French authorities that it can only be in very specific, limited circumstances,

I actually don't think there is any difference between French and American cuisine. French cuisine was always about discipline, about ingredient, about creativity, but also about simple. I see America as very similar in these rights.

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he suppoprt the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

He was steadfast. All of a sudden he's back because he's mad at L'Equipe ? Come on, ... If he hates the French so much why did he support the French bid for the (2012) Olympics?

He was not brought to judgment, but he was brought to justice. He did not die in a hail of bullets in Belgrade or in retirement on the French Riviera. He died in a jail cell.

I always feel I'm better known in England than I am here in the U.S. Americans don't read that much, and the French are very good at knowing the names of everybody.

He was 16, a French immigrant, nobody knew who he was ? he was an orphan. He was nobody, and then all of the sudden because he's a survivor and cannibalism was said to have taken place, he's suddenly elevated to stardom and infamy. He probably made the whole thing sound as sexy and gory and sensational as possible.

He did not say how people are going to change the technocrats who seem to be running French politics, who have alienated the people and who have gained Le Pen his temporary success.

He is quite incredible - it made me think a bit about me winning the French Open at 17 and how professionals accomplish things so young. I had the feeling Tiger Woods did not quite know what was going on and it was like that for me at the French. It was only afterwards that I realized the significance.