Christine Lagarde Quotes
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I simply can't do one-word message replies: Yes. Ok. No. Sure. Cool. None of these are options for me. I must write something extra. Something personal. I put kisses and emoticons. Emoticons, by the way, are my very best friends. They have removed all the pressure of thinking up something personal to say.
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The talent curve in game-making is going straight up to Heaven.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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The average celebrity meets, in one year, ten times the amount of people that the average person meets in his entire life.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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In high school, my goal was to be a writer for SNL, then I got into the acting.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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When you're listening to radio and hear the same 20 songs over and over and over, you want a break from it. Sometimes you don't want to hear something that sounds just like everything else on the radio. Eventually, if you hear the same sounds and the same musicians and the same mixes and all of that, it will start to sound like elevator music.
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You ask any person in the U.S. and they know who Mary Lou Retton is.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I've still got that little freedom part of me that wants to have a car that looks really sexy.
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No art is less spontaneous than mine. What I do is the result of reflection and the study of the great masters.
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I follow my own head. And if I'm determined to do something, then I'll make sure that I make it happen.
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When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.
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I love action movies.
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English has always had a special fondness for other European languages, a neighborly soft spot - perhaps because Britain has been invaded by speakers of those languages from the onset of its recorded history.
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I always try to be true to who I am and just be myself.
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And I admit it: there's a rather dirty thrill when 700 people laugh at a joke you've written.
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I don't like to talk about my personal life.
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Americans think Soviets are so grim. I want them to see that they can smile.
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I think who you are in school really sticks with you. I don't ever feel like the cool kid at the party, ever. It's like, 'Smile and be nice to everybody, because you were not invited to be here.'
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On the red carpet, one tip is to suck in your cheekbones - apparently it looks better on camera. I don't know, though; I think a nice smile is best.
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Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.
