"People have a good image of me. It's not theseÂ tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites."

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Source : "French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.

Patrice Evra

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #France Quotes

“When I was young, I couldnt imagine women of 60 falling in love. For one thing, people used to stay married; they werent out in the jungle, searching for romance. Besides, these women just looked so ancient - permed hair, beige cardis.”
“Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself.”
“I'm very focused on the world and my career and my Porsche turbo and making money and Stevie B. Inc. I'm just living according to the standards of the world.”
“Surely a large part of the zealous repression of radical protest in America has its roots in the fact that millions of men who are apparently "insiders" know how vulnerable the system is because they know how ambiguous their own attachments to it are. The slightest challenge exposes the fragile foundations of legitimacy of the state.”

Source : John H. Schaar (1981). “Legitimacy in the Modern State”, p.31, Transaction Publishers
“The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.”

Source : Laurie Penny (2014). “Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution”, p.55, A&C Black
“I was kind of an invisible girl when I was young.”

Source : "'Silver Sparrow,' Tayari Jones' Tale Of Secret Sisters". "All Things Considered" with Michele Norris, www.npr.org. May 19, 2011.
“Maybe it was magic. I was really prepared for everything. I knew I had to go for every shot, but I also think for her it wasn't really easy when she saw I was running and putting everything back too.”
“The secret of the nobility and beauty of great ladies lies in the art with which they can shed their veils. In such situations, they become like ancient statues. If they kept the merest scarf on, they would be lewd. Your bourgeois woman will always try to cover her nakedness.”

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