When I grew up in France, I was a normal size. And then I came to the United States and I gained 20 pounds.

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.

Intelligence, knowledge or experience are important and might get you a job, but strong communication skills are what will get you promoted.

Taking care of your mental and physical health is just as important as any career move or responsibility.

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

I would advocate that chocolate be covered by health insurance, but that is admittedly a very French public policy perspective.

In the U.S., too many yogurts are filled with corn syrup, preservatives, artificial this and that. To me, this is poison.

French women love bread and would never consider a life without carbs.

Once you have to start counting calories, it takes away from the joy of eating.

French women typically think about good things to eat. American women typically worry about bad things to eat.

Making choices that are meaningful to you is the essence of the French woman's secret.

No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies.

your lack of hard work fails your destiny and not the destiny fails you.

Oh, traccy traccy ply ply bracket doints and divs

What marks the artist is his power to shape the material of pain we all have.

Yes! I dare disturb the universe.

In my whole life, I've never vomited from seeing something disgusting. Does it really even happen, outside of movies and TV? I believe it may be a myth.

It's all about love. We're either in love, dreaming about love, recovering from it, wishing for it or reflecting on it. That's what this record [Call Me Irresponsible] is about.

Type is saying things to us all the time. Typefaces express a mood, an atmosphere. They give words a certain coloring.

The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste.

Grace could not have done it’s curing work if the law had not first done its crushing work.