"You cannot trust people who have such bad cuisine. It [Great Britain] is the country with the worst food after Finland."

-- Jacques Chirac

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Culture Quotes

“If youre going to be a zombie in a movie, you go big or go home.”
“The Republican Party is no longer the Republican Party.”
“I don't believe in waiting for a horse to do the wrong thing and then punishing him after the fact. You can't just say no to a horse. You have to redirect a negative behavior with a positive one, something that works for both of you. It's as though you're saying - instead of doing that, we can do this together.”
“When everyone's focused on the conventional parts of war - doing infantry imbeds or chasing IEDs - you look at the thing that seems not that interesting to people, like the circumstances of logistics workers cooking the troops' food or cleaning their latrines.”
“I'm quite contrary. If people agree on something, I tend to gravitate the other way by my nature. I don't like to be told what to do. I think it goes back to school. I like to do things I want to do and I really don't like doing what I don't want to do.”
“...I think the Americans are the only people who have good beds. I consider the American bedroom unparalleled for freshness, comfort, and cleanliness. It is worth going all over Europe in order to come home to one's own bed.”
“All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.”

Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.13, Univ of California Press
“If you have a weakness, everyone sees it all over the country and the other team is going to exploit it.”

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