International Skating competition in Paris

If you're in Paris this week-end and want to attend an international figure skating competition, do not hesitate, RUN buying tickets.
You won't regret it.

The Trophée Eric Bompard is one of the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Competition. Thus (and since it is in Paris), it attracks every year most of the best skaters from all over the world. 


I told you, do not hesitate, run attentding it !

 (c) Trophée Eric Bompard 2011

Change

"If you don't like something change it;

If you can't change it,

Change the way you think about it."

Mary Engelbreit

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"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."

Flora Whittemore

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"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions 
that can change your life forever."

Keri Russell

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(c) Kimi Ga Kureta Natsu

Greek wisdom and proverbs

Greek wisdom...

"Since we cannot change reality,

let us change the eyes which see reality."

Nikos Kazantzakis

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"It is during our darkest moments 

that we must focus to see the light."

Aristotle Onassis

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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

Nikos Kazantzakis

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"Everything in this world has a hidden meaning."

Nikos Kazantzakis

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"The language of truth is unadorned and always simple."

Ammianus Marcellinus

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"I am a citizen, 
not of Athens or Greece, 
but of the world"

Socrates

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"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide."

George Santayana

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Greek Proverbs...

"Danger can only be overcome by more danger"

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"He who suffers much will know much"

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"Wonder is the beginning of wisdom"

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"One minute of patience, 

Ten years of peace"

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"The beginning is half of every action"

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"Before you can score, 

You must have a goal"

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"After the war, aid."

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"Act quickly, think slowly."

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"Eat and drink with your relatives; 

Do business with strangers."

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"Gray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom."

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"Many men know how to flatter, 

Few men know how to praise."

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"One witness one liar; 

More witnesses, all liars."

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"Pleasure is the greatest incentive to vice."

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"Success is doing what you like 
and making a living at it."

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"Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth" Pablo Picasso

"Every child is an artist. 

The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."

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"I am always doing that which I can not do,

in order that I may learn how to do it."

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"Inspiration does exist, 

but it must find you working."

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"It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction."

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"Painting is just another way of keeping a diary."

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"The artist is a receptacle for emotions 

that come from all over the place: 

from the sky, 

from the earth, 

from a scrap of paper, 

from a passing shape..."

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"There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, 

but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, 

transform a yellow spot into the sun."

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"There is no abstract art. 

You must always start with something. 

Afterward you can remove all traces of reality."

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"We all know that art is not the truth, 

art is a lie that makes us realize the truth."

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All those quotes are by Pablo Picasso

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 Two women running on the beach - Pablo Picasso

 Le pigeon aux petits pois - Pablo Picasso (1911)

Grand nu au fauteuil rouge - Pablo Picasso (1925)

Colombe - Pablo Picasso 

 

Cavalier à la pipe - Pablo Picasso (1968)

Enfant à la colombe - Pablo Picasso 

Lithographie Estampe - Pablo Picasso

 Guernica - Pablo Picasso (1937)

  Le Rêve - Pablo Picasso (1932)

La Colombe de la Paix - Pablo Picasso (1949)

"Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish." ALWAYS

"Stay Hungry,

Stay Foolish"

Steve Jobs

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Think different

Innovate
Create
Find what you love
Know what you truly want to become

Curiosity
Intuition
Love
Change
Faith
Death
Humility
Life

(c) Stanford University

(c) Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address

Here is a written transcription of Steve Jobs' speech.

ER reminiscence

Today's quote is a reminiscence.

No nostalgy.
Not even a word.
Just an old well-known music.
A former TV show opening.

40 seconds which sum up 15 years of French sunday nights, when I used to hurry up ending doing my homework to watch this.

Because there is NO doubt,
ER has been the best medical TV show ever.
A lot of blood
NFS-chimi-iono-blood gases-surgery calling
Very ill and dying people
Open-heart reanimation
Authoritative bosses
Real medical diagnosis
Great sexy actors.

I have been in the south of France for a few days.

By chance I found back an old DVD pack.

I watched 2 episodes last sunday night.

As I usually did.

I had told you : reminiscence.

It was a really good evening.
I felt peace and appeasement.
For the 1rst time after weeks of troubles.
Believe me, calm and peace were all I needed that day.

(c) TM & 2001Warner Bros

(c) France 2 - NBC

iSad

"Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"

Steve Jobs

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"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."

Steve Jobs, Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998

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"Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary."

Steve Jobs

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"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."

Steve Jobs

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"Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?"

Steve Jobs to John Sculley, former Apple CEO

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"A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets."

Steve Jobs

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"Quality is more important than quantity. 

One home run is much better than two doubles."

Steve Jobs in Businessweek

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"That’s not what we think design is. It’s not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works."

Steve Jobs in The New York Times 2003

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"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn’t matter to me … Going to bed at night saying we’ve done something wonderful… that’s what matters to me."

Steve Jobs - The Wall Street Journal 1983

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And if it were happinness

"Et si c'était ça le bonheur, 

pas même un rêve, 

pas même une promesse, 

juste l'instant."

No et Moi

Delphine de Vigan 

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(c) Frenchy Baguette

Carpe Diem...


* English translation
"And if this were happinness, not even a dream, not even a promise, just an instant."

Le Parc - Angelin Preljocaj

Today the Thursday quote is a part of Angelin Preljocaj's beautiful ballet "Le Parc", because sometimes there is no need using word to express things.

Dance and music are enough.

The end of the ballet is amazing.

When you see it in a theater, you feel that the girl is really flying and you start crying.

This last well-known part of the ballet was recently re-choregraphed by Angelin Preljocaj specially for Air France new ad.

(c) "Abandon" Pas de Deux - from the ballet "Le Parc" - Angelin Preljocaj

(c) Performance : Aurélie Dupont and Manuel Legris

Here is the Air France new ad, so that you can see the way a ballet can be well adapted to a TV format. Visually, aesthetically and objectively, to me, this ad is just perfect.

(c) "L'envol" by Air France - 2011

(c) Choregraphy from "Le Parc" - Angelin Preljocaj

Frenchy Baguette is back

Dear All,

I have been very busy these weeks.
I had a few very difficult problems to solve.
I feel better now.

Autumn is back.
It is my favourite season.
I like its light and quietness.
I can feel its energy.
I have very interesting new projects in mind. 

As I usually did, I'll go on with the "Thursday Quote".
Every Thursday.
A weekly meeting with you.

I'll write regularly about Paris.
Photos.
Non-usual places to discover.

Paris is a city to live in.
Paris is a city to experience.
Daily.

Thank you for being there.
Thank you for reading Frenchy Baguette.

DO NOT hesitate in writing to me if you want to suggest new ideas for this blog, to ask for explanations or just to say "hello".

I'll be there.

Enjoy your week-end and take care of you,

Frenchy Baguette