C'est la vie, he should have said, but finance ministers can't go round saying things like that.

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She also had a number of hit songs, including Old Fashioned Girl, C'est Si Bon and Santa Baby.

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Covers like Noir C'est Noir were all terribly earnest but sounded like a parody and became ripe for mickey-taking.

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"C'est ridicule, " is how Pinault responds to any suggestion of exhibitionism.

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Plus que ca change, plus que c'est la meme chose.

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It was superseded by the contemporary piece Aujourd'hui C'est Toi in the late 1960s, which had previously appeared on the soundtrack to 1966 French film Un Homme et Une Femme.

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C'est la vie when you're on the road.

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Aujourd'hui, c'est le tour du pays Bassari.

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C'est la guerre, was the verdict.

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Mais aujourd'hui c'est l'Internet qui l'emporte.

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While living in exile in France, Mr. Zulawski shot "That Most Important Thing: Love" ("L'important c'est d'aimer, " 1975), with Romy Schneider playing an actress reduced to working in sleazy movies who lands a role in a production of "Richard III" after a besotted photographer borrows money from his sordid contacts to finance it.

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