In the ’60s when I was a student, there was this campaign to destroy 75 percent of the old buildings in Paris, replacing them with modern architecture. I realized this as a dangerous utopia. This modern vision did not understand the richness of the city. Thankfully, such destruction did not happen.
By withdrawing from the Paris Agreement, the U.S. cedes power and influence to our rivals. If we retreat on our promises and cede leadership on climate issues, we lose credibility. Further, we lose the ability to hold other countries accountable for a broader range of issues.
In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, ‘Well, you have to die some way or another.’ If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
A quick trip to Paris would be nice. It’s a beautiful city, and I’ve visited several times. I like the buzz, the sights and restaurants.
Obviously, I want to do well in all tournaments, but if I had to pick, for sure Paris.
In London, what I do on the weekend is be a person and have my own life. In Paris, it is going from this hotel to the office and back again. But I love it.
The way I found time to write ‘The Imperfectionists’ was that I took work as a copy editor at the ‘International Herald Tribune’ in Paris, working full-time for approximately six months, then taking my savings from that and writing full-time, then returning after six months, and so on, until the book was done!
I’d always been extremely fascinated by the French Nuit Blanche, which is a weekend that they have in Paris where they keep all the museums open until dawn. You can go and hang out in Versailles in the middle of the night and watch the sun come up.
Paris is cafe culture, Dublin is pub culture, and that’s the best place to solve all the world’s problems: over a pint! One of the great joys of living, I think. The problems of the world seem to disappear.
In Paris, it used to feel like you were living in a museum. As beautiful as it was, it’s still limited. But here you have just everything.
My mom spent like a decade of her life living in Paris, and I grew up listening to a lot of French music as well as Arabic music.
I really, really want to go to Paris. I’ve never been.
In Paris, there has to be a presence. History becomes the most interesting when it’s compared to the present. I mean there’s a whole group of people that want to build new buildings that look like old buildings.
I was born in Paris, and I haven’t moved, except until now – I live in the suburbs and I hate it.
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
I’ve always been of the idea that is doesn’t really matter where you are geographically – with ‘Lonerism,’ we made half the album in Australia, half the album in Paris.
My husband is French and, before we bought our olive farm, we spent our early courting days in Paris. So I got to know well the intricacies of the city.
I’ve been fortunate to have been in Paris a dozen times, where I’ve gone to the Louvre. I’m very big on Impressionistic paintings.
You have people who can’t act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She’s made a career out of it.
I was going to be the best failed novelist in Paris. That was certainly not the worst thing in the world that one could be.
Paris Saint-Germain is the biggest club in France, which continues to progress, and who plays to win all possible titles.
Paris is where my family are, but it’s not really home now because I have dear friends in London and dear friends in New York.
Whoever you are – whether you’re Paris Hilton, anyone – if you do something illegal there’s a consequence.
I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and dancing in a very risque way. They were only 11 years old, and their performance was shocking.
I was used to theatre classes. I studied with my mother; she was a theatre teacher and directed, too, so it was very family-like. Then I studied with a great teacher in Paris, and she was wonderful; she pushed me, but she was a warm soul.
The first time I listened to Coldplay, I was at a train station in Paris with my family on holiday. I put on ‘Clocks’ on my discman, and I fell in love.
I just feel at Paris, I will have more chances compared to Madrid. I’m French and I choose a French team. People must be happy to keep a French player in the league.
The Kerala market may be small, but the reach is very wide. I am told Malayalis in Russia and Paris, too, watch my films, and that’s something!
The targets we all agree on – every country in the world except the U.S., Nicaragua, and Syria – will have targets under the Paris Agreement. So everyone knows what the targets should be, and then we can have a difference of opinion on exactly how these emissions will be reduced.
I was in Paris for nine years, starting in ’98. One of the great things when I was first there were these wonderful CD collections, selling for almost nothing. For ten euros, you’d get three CDs of all the Gershwin songs.
We were taught to think that Paris was the center of the universe.
Well we really meant you to visit Paris in May, but the rhythm required two syllables.
My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.
Paris can be like the land of the Lotus-Eaters. You can’t leave.
One of the first things I created was music for the Paris opera’s ballet troupe. That was the first time that electronic music was played at the opera. I really like the relationship between the music and the choreography.
The French consider themselves the guardians of the world’s culture and do not bother to hide the fact, which is annoying, but Paris is still where good Americans want to go when they die – and Brits, Russians, and Chinese as well, these days.
The government believes that we will need to take the step of enshrining the Paris goal for net zero emissions in U.K. law. The question is not whether but how we do it.
For ‘Shiddat,’ I knew I had to look, feel and sound like a seasoned resident of Paris.
When I lived in Paris in the early ’80s, I had the occasion to hang out with Prince Albert of Monaco quite a few times.
Paris in green or a stage win, tough one. I never really thought about the green until I was wearing it. It’s something special to wear.
I was there less than a year before I was assigned to the Paris bureau. I spent two years there and, in fact, before I even went on the staff I was sent to Europe to do assignments which they wouldn’t normally do for a young photographer just starting out.
A pig’s trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
After college, I moved to Paris to work as a paralegal. I hadn’t been feeling well throughout most of my senior year of college, but I chalked it up to burning the candle at both ends. After I started my job, I began feeling more and more tired.
I think one of my favorite things about Paris is the ever-present, nonstop beauty of the city. So I would just walk as much as possible.
The media circus got a bit twisted when I was in London. It became a bit of a joke, really. In Paris, they’re so serious, I can take myself really seriously, too. I can get really morbid without people telling me to cheer up.
I’ve wanted to be an actor since I was 6 years old. I was literally picked off the streets of Paris… while I was modeling there. I was asked to audition for Oliver Stone’s ‘Alexander.’ I didn’t get the part, but that led to commercials and roles in South Africa.
We have really good parents, and even though they broke up when we were little, we were still raised by two people who had really good ethics. They were never going to let us turn into Paris Hilton. I think that it wasn’t really an option to become spoiled brats.
I looked for acting classes in Paris just to do something different than modeling. And then one day I just thought, ‘Okay, that’s enough, I have to start doing something.’ I went to the acting agency and I just told them I wanted to act and asked them if they would give me a chance, and they did.
I go out very rarely in Paris. If it’s a fashion party at a nightclub, I wouldn’t dream to go. People come to you for your work, not because you go to all their parties.
Paris. City of love. City of dreams. City of splendor. City of saints and scholars. City of gaiety. Sink of iniquity.
Paris has always shown a lot of love towards my music, and I am very grateful.
Interviewing Rei Kawakubo in Tokyo and John Galliano in Paris, both for ‘Pop’ magazine, were huge for me, not just in learning about fashion and writing but about how little desire I had to be a critic/reporter/journalist/commentator so much as a kind of travel diarist.
I love London, even though the weather’s not great. I’ve travelled the world and I’ve lived in Paris, Germany, Los Angeles and New York but I love the parks, the theatre and the Britishness and the way that all these communities have integrated.
