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In addition to the research, I enjoyed learning French and assimilating the culture of another country.

I myself owe everything to French books. They developed in my soul the sentiments of humanity which had been stifled by eight years of fanatical and servile education.

It hath been an opinion that the French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are; but howsoever it be between nations, certainly it is so between man and man

I think New Orleans is such a beautiful city. It looks like a fairytale when you walk through the French Quarter or the Garden District. There is such a lush sense of color, style, architecture - and the people themselves.

I read French much better than I speak.

Being hungry is something you get very used to in the French Foreign Legion,

I am an amateur mountain climber. Once or twice a year I go off to Chamonix in the French Alps, under Mont Blanc, and with a guide do treks that include rock climbing at high altitude.

high and dry. The French were no dummies. They knew where to build.

He's sensational. I was impressed by him at the French Open but maybe it'll be a little different here in New York.

How does any place influence one's poetry? Sometimes I joke that Hypothesis is about an Alberta boy's struggle to have French boyfriends.

Hosting the first stage of the legendary French cycle race will raise the profile of cycling in the capital, attract visitors and promote the capital as a venue for international sporting events.

I don't really have anything against the French except that, as an American, I've been bred to despise them with the same zeal as soccer and Renny Harlin films.

Cheese is good. And Britain, despite the grumblings of the French and the outrage of the Swiss, not to mention some plucky challenges from Italy, Austria, and Spain, has some of the best cheese in the world. We're world leaders in cheese.

By French request, we have to send first three female bears.

He's like I am - a French speaking person. That was his original language.

He said this to mislead the French and international opinion. It's too good to be true.

Gallas still has one year left in his contract with his club. All I can say is we like French players because they are able to adapt better to our football than the rest of the Europeans.

If I am driving in France, I would be subject to French traffic laws. If I am driving in Australia, Australian traffic laws. If I am driving the information super highway, you don't know whose laws apply.

If he ran for president in French Polynesia, he'd probably get elected.

If German citizens, for example, who are vacationing in France, get robbed there, they can -- together with German courts -- apply for compensation from the French authorities.

I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.

I did a little film called 'Nina,' a small role. I played a French girl who was a nurse to Nina Simone. Zoe Saldana plays Nina.

I can read a lot of French newspapers with Google Translate and have them read quite comfortably.

I could probably die happy with a cheeseboard and a glass of French red wine - that's my idea of a perfect dinner.

I'd say of the upper echelon, about 50 percent are hunting dogs, ... But a lot of people just have French poodles and their family pet.

I'd rather people talked about the 1,000 most successful French Internet companies instead of the 5 or 10 faces we already know - including mine.

I don't see that the level of funding was really a contributing factor in this case. Had this project been fully complete, it is my opinion that based on the intensity of this storm that the flooding of the business district and the French Quarter would have still taken place.

I am not telling people to stop eating potato chips and French fries, but I and all consumers should have the information we need to make informed decisions about the food we eat.

I am not telling people to stop eating potato chips and french fries, ... But I and all consumers should have the information we need to make informed decisions about the food we eat.

I am not here to prepare for the French Open. I am here to try to win the tournament,

I believe I should have been swept away by the flood of French infidelity, if it had not been for one thing, the remembrance of the time when my sainted mother used to make me kneel by her side, taking my little hands in hers, and caused me to repeat

If EADS took over Thales, they would have to find ways to hand off certain parts of the business as soon as possible. But getting that through Thales and the French state is especially difficult because in the end it's a dismantling of Thales.

I don't think the U.S. Congress or even the Department of Defense is going to be interested in subsidizing the French economy with that kind of money, ... If Airbus was a (British) company, rather than predominantly French and German, I think it would be very different.

I called the French coach on Wednesday and I asked him not to put Eric on his list as I don't want him to play in this match.

I do like potato chips, French fries and Barney's burgers in L.A. with seasoned curly fries.

He played really well and his game caught me off guard a bit. But I was expecting him to give me a tough match because the French always raise their game when they're playing at home in Davis Cup.

For the moment there is absolutely no sign of a turnaround. The impact of the global slowdown on the French economy will continue to be felt in 2002.

For the moment there is absolutely no sign of a turnaround, ... The impact of the global slowdown on the French economy will continue to be felt in 2002.

You could have done it in one year. The breach that occurred in one corner of the city basically spread throughout the whole city. Why? Why allow the water to move through the whole thing, including the French Quarter that was miles and miles away.

The Iranian nation expects the French government to make good on the damage inflicted on Tehran-Paris relations in connection with the nuclear standoff,

The two women positively enjoy punishing the portly knight for his audacity as they deal with an insanely jealous husband, a rebellious daughter, a warlike French doctor, a nosy Welch clergyman and all the other denizens of their Windsor community.

These are invaluable treasures to this nation and to the city. That's what drew all these tourists here over all these years.... The French Quarter clearly has a lot of damage to it from wind and some from water, but it may be that it is largely intact at least in terms of the structures.

These kids could all grow up and be rich and eat lobster the rest of their lives. And nothing will taste better than those french fries.

This is my third consecutive title and that's great specially because I had a very tough challenge from the French guy.

This is a good step toward reducing artery-clogging fat in french fries, but it doesn't make french fries a health food.

All economists are saying it, French economists as well as European. We are at the end of a cycle that has not been very positive,

The flooding stopped about a block from our home, but we lost two huge pecan trees. They were probably about 200 years old and just snapped off at the base. They took out our back porch and that blew the French doors open.

The group will be neither French nor French-American. It will be a global organization whose headquarters and directors will be based in Paris.

The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the classics to show tunes to Dixieland to original compositions.

The impact on Apple is not clear yet. But the French are late; Microsoft and Apple are already dominating the market.

Agents are getting their hands on serious amounts of money - more than ?30 million (US$36.6 million) alone on the French market - which is unjustifiable compared to the work carried out, and dubious as to where that money is heading.

The gain in French business confidence is a positive sign because of the political unrest and the setback for the government on labor market reform. It's a very strong reading and sets the theme for the rest of the confidence data this week.

The French will want new rules that are broad enough to allow them to assert control over a wide range of firms in sectors defined as strategic, but narrow enough to win European approval and to assure investors from overseas of real influence over companies in which they take a stake.

The French will have to make their own determination.

The French were very, very responsive. Absolutely, we might invite the president of France.

The French were so dominant, their goalie never had to drop his cigarette.

The French? Upper class. Now, this is not all of France, it's just the French upper class, and it's very true. That's the way that they are, yes.

The French team is working well now. (Last month's 1-0) victory over Ireland has given us confidence. At one stage the boat did start to take water a bit and was starting to sink. It wasn't a crisis ... a changing of generations, establishing a new status.

The French state with its Clemenceau has 55 other ships that are waiting to be dismantled. The UK has 40. And we know that in the U.S. there are 600 ships waiting to be dismantled. All of them are government ships, full of asbestos, PCPs and all this other stuff.

The French riots are also not helping the euro,

The French report did not indicate any of these things,

The French Quarter and Uptown, you see life basically as it was before the storm. It's eerie, because life really is normal in those neighborhoods and then you cross over the Industrial Canal and enter the lower Ninth Ward or eastern New Orleans, and it looks like a bomb just went off yesterday.

The French Quarter, Algiers and the St. Charles Avenue corridor - all those big houses, all the things the tourists want to see - they're all still in place. We have a good foundation.

The French protectionist model is doomed to failure. Better to follow the examples from London and Berlin.

The French produce great Camembert, but they haven't absorbed the wisdom of Spencer Johnson's modern classic, 'Who Moved My Cheese?: An Amazing Way to Deal with Change in Your Work and in Your life'.

the French proceedings are coming to an end.

The (French) president reiterated in that speech that the stated French nuclear doctrine has not changed in the respect that France does not regard nuclear arms as an instrument of warfare.

The French played better on key points -- even when we had break points they served perfectly. Our poor teamwork was not the reason for our defeat -- the French pair just played better today.

The French plan, which would somehow try to transfer sovereignty to an unelected group of people, just isn't workable,

The French people stand with all their hearts at the side of the American people,

The French people have expressed their choice. They have ultimately preferred not to support the Treaty establishing the European Constitution. I evidently respect their choice, but I also regret it an equal measure of sincerity. Europe needs its people, but each one of us also needs her. Europe is, above all, a venture of hope.

The (French) people don't dislike (Armstrong). But there are certain elements of the French press that have always gone after him throughout his reign. But they've never proven a thing. It's always been circumstantial. I don't believe he takes drugs.

The French minister is entitled to her own opinion. However her opinion does not accurately characterize the policy or position of the secretary of defense or the position of the U.S. government.

The French love stark plays about power and sexuality,

The French implementation of the EU Copyright Directive will result in state-sponsored piracy. If this happens, legal music sales will plummet just when legitimate alternatives to piracy are winning over customers.

The French have taste in all they do - which we are quite without; For Nature, that to them gave gout, To us gave only gout

The French have possession of the island of New Caledonia, which is not very far from here, and is a convenient place of rendezvous for them.

The French have generated a level of consistency over the last half a dozen games that has perhaps been missing from them in the past. We're aware that they've got a formidable array of talent available to them, but we think we've got a pretty good side as well and we'll be going into the game with some expectations and a high level of confidence.

The French have a saying, 'Certainly you need money to live, but not to love,' and I agree. Money means nothing to me, but my friends whom I've met through cancer mean everything.

The French group is caught up in these contradictory opinions, some of them surprising as they come from the inside, and has been weakened before this exciting and crucial competition -- Euro 2004,

The French government will not face a Tony Blair moment because the police have enjoyed steadily increasing powers in France for the last few decades. What Blair tried in Britain or Bush did in the U.S. with the Patriot Act were major shifts in the legal landscape.

The French government has been represented by its own officials in the investigation since the second day. The French government has their experts here, they're talking to our people all the time,

The French Forces of the Interior, who have scarcely enough to help themselves, try to help their wounded Spanish comrades in arms.

The French film industry has always been characterized by a vast array of small producers, most responsible for one or two films a year. While this has cost the industry perhaps a certain amount of economic muscle, it's also allowed for a remarkable, wide-ranging array of film styles to emerge over the years.

The French economy has emerged from the slowdown, ... The economic situation in the second half of 2005 and for 2006 looks unquestionably better than during the last 12 months.

The French don't like it, and the (International Olympic Committee) doesn't like it. Everyone else has embraced it.

The French court's decision and President Chirac's statement to call the ship back shows how a government when pressured by the public opinion can take corrective action.

The French back three have shown up well and it's a reflection of the way the team's going,

The French are pretty thin-skinned. The few times I mentioned a French writer in 'City Boy,' the relatives would ring up in high dudgeon. I once wrote a mocking review of Marguerite Duras in the 'New York Review of Books,' and good friends of mine in France got very angry.

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite.

The French and Palestinian doctors have concluded that there was no known cure for the illness that afflicted the president,

The first Ruby Tuesday opened in 1972. In those days, the number one item people ordered when they went out was a hamburger and french fries. Today, the number one items people order when they go out are a hamburger, french fries and chicken tenders.

The (Colombian) government authorized the French government to intercede on behalf of the people who have been kidnapped,

The concert was all French music except for my solos. We tried to keep it in a French mode because the second half of the concert was all French pieces.

America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

The levee failures we saw were in areas of the projects that were at their full project design. So that part of the project was in place and had this project been fully complete ... it's my opinion, based on the intensity of this storm, that the flooding of the Central Business District and the French Quarter would still have occurred.

The interrogations, the French and everything going on hasn't set too well with him,

No one will be petty about this and we can forget about our differences and I will not have to refer to my French fried potatoes as 'freedom fries' and I don't have to freedom kiss my wife when I really want to French kiss her. So let's pull together now.

I was at this restaurant. The sign said "Breakfast Anytime." So I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.

The American high school graduate is two years behind his English, French or German counterpart; in Alabama, God knows how far behind.