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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Traveling

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So you're single? In Paris? Now I'm even more jealous. I mean, your life is croissants and sex.

Madeline Wheeler in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 3

Paris

I make the most money, I think, in Russia and Paris, for the people of those countries are so willing to be amused, so eager to see something new and out of the ordinary.

Harry Houdini

Russia Paris

If Paris is a city of lights, Sydney is the city of fireworks.

Baz Luhrmann

Paris Sydney

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Art Paris

Quagmire: "You got to help me. I'm looking for a little boy with red overalls and a yellow shirt."
French Man: "You are looking to buy or to rent?"
Quagmire: "What? No! God! How is Paris considered a classy city?"
French Man: "The buildings are beautiful, the people are trash."

Glenn Quagmire in Family Guy

Paris

Do you realize this city is laid out in circles? Like they deliberately designed it to confuse us.

Emily Cooper in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris

Paris seems like a big city, but it's really just a small town.

Camille in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Paris

Of course, I love Paris. And the food is so delicious. The fashion, so chic. The lights, so magical. But the people, so mean.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 1

Paris

It's Paris. Everyone's serious about dinner.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 2

Paris

You haven't done Paris right until you've had at least one wildly inappropriate affair.

Mindy Chen in Emily in Paris - Season 1 Episode 4

Paris

What's the name of that famous museum in Paris? The Louvre? I went through that place in 20 minutes.

Peter Falk

Paris Museums

The Parisian has his amus*ments as regularly as his meals, the theatre, music, the dance, a walk in the Tuilleries, a refection in the cafe, to which ladies resort as commonly as the other sex. Perpetual business, perpetual labor, is a thing of which he seems to have no idea.

William Cullen Bryant

Paris

I think Paris smells not just sweet but melancholy and curious, sometimes sad but always enticing and seductive. She's a city for the all senses, for artists and writers and musicians and dreamers, for fantasies, for long walks and wine and lovers and, yes, for mysteries.

M.J. Rose

Paris

Look at London or Paris: they're both filthy. You don't get that in Tokyo. The proud residents look after their city.

Tadao Ando

Paris London Tokyo

When God feels bored, he opens a window and observes the boulevards of Paris.

Heinrich Heine

Paris

One of Paris' amenities is that you can be born here, live here, die here without anyone even noticing.

Honoré de Balzac - Le Père Goriot, 1834-1835

Paris

That's L.A. They worship everything and they value nothing.

Sebastian Wilder in La La Land

Los Angeles

Welcome to a city where people trying to disappear aren't actually trying.

Joe Goldberg in You - Season 2 Episode 2

Los Angeles

I lived in L.A. for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it.

Catherine O'Hara

Los Angeles

Linda: "Why did you decide to come to Los Angeles?"
Lucifer: "The same reason as everyone else: the weather, p*rnstars, Mexican food."

Lucifer Morningstar in Lucifer - Season 1 Episode 3

Los Angeles

People here in Los Angeles are disgusted now about a sex scandal involving Arnold Schwarzenegger. Apparently for seven years, he carried on a sexual relationship with his own wife.

Craig Kilborn

Los Angeles

Los Angeles was the kind of place where everybody was from somewhere else and nobody really droppped anchor.

Michael Connelly in The Lincoln Lawyer - The Brass Verdict

Los Angeles

The L.A. weather is a lot like Taiwan's, where you don't observe four seasons, so the years can pass and you don't feel a thing.

Ang Lee

Los Angeles Taiwan

You're lucky we're not in Los Angeles, because Angelinos can smell BS a mile away.

Melinda Monroe in Virgin River - Season 1 Episode 1

Los Angeles

I'm from the Compton slums, and that's how the West ride
I'm from the city where two of the best died

The Game - The City, Album: The R.E.D. Album

The Notorious B.I.G.Eazy-E Los Angeles

I moved to Los Angeles for two reasons. One is to run away from a boy. Two is to chase a boy.

Kelly Mi Li in Bling Empire

Los Angeles

If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.

Matthew Goode

Los Angeles

I'm rich, I'm miserable - I'm pretty average for this town.

Michael De Santa in GTA - Grand Theft Auto - V

Los Angeles

Riggs: "You want me to drive?"
Murtaugh: "No, you're supposed to be suicidal, remember? I'll drive."
Riggs: "Anybody who drives around in this town IS suicidal."

Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon

Los Angeles

Miss Carter, you have no idea how foreign Los Angeles will seem to a civilized person such as yourself. They eat avocados... with everything!

Edwin Jarvis in Agent Carter - Season 2 Episode 1

Los Angeles

There's an old saying: 'Nobody comes from Los Angeles. Everybody comes to Los Angeles'. But if you do come from Los Angeles, then chances are you come from Pasadena.

Rumor Has It...

Los Angeles

The difference between Los Angeles and yogurt is that yogurt comes with less fruit.

Rush Limbaugh

Los Angeles

Like so many things, it's not what is outside, but what is inside that counts.

Aladdin

Beauty Profoundness

"What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well."

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

Profoundness Deserts

Maybe she laughs and maybe she cries
And maybe you would be surprised at everything she keeps inside

Boonaa Mohammed - Beautiful

Profoundness

That's the thing about depth - it can be a lonely place. You've got to come up for air to reach most people.

Cindy Cherie

Profoundness

75% of the Earth's surface is ocean. So divers live on a much bigger planet.

Diving

Life feels better in a wetsuit.

Diving Surfing

From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Diving

The ocean is a source of inspiration, wonder, and awe. Diving allows us to tap into that inspiration and to experience the world in a whole new way.

David Attenborough

Diving

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying "I would stay and love you, but I have to go".

Traveling

The world is like a book. Those who don't travel read only one page.

Aurelius Augustinus

Books Traveling World

Because sometimes, even when you know how something's gonna end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.

Ted Mosby in How I Met Your Mother - Season 2 Episode 14

Traveling

He that traveleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.

Francis Bacon

Traveling Languages

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

Deadpool

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