Christine Lagarde Quotes

I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

Christine Lagarde

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• We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Technology
  • New
  • Jump

• How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• There are a lot of good men's magazines. In England, you have 'Arena Homme+' and 'Another Man;' and in France we have 'L'Officiel Hommes.' But all are looking similar.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • Men
  • Man

• Well, as I understand it, the main supporters are beer companies and the pharmaceutical companies. I'd like them to show me the dead bodies from marijuana. But they can't because there aren't any.

  

  Jack Herer
  • Me
  • Dead
  • Companies

• I do read some of the scripts from America and, even though the themes or subject of the film is very interesting, and some of the scenes are very interesting, there is a tendency that they have to explain everything. There will be no dilemma.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • America
  • Interesting
  • Film

• My company invents all kinds of new technology in lots of different areas. And we do that for a couple of reasons. We invent for fun - invention is a lot of fun to do - and we also invent for profit. The two are related because the profit actually takes long enough that if it isn't fun, you wouldn't have the time to do it.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Time
  • Different
  • Long

• If we were truly in the studio making a record, it would have been more time consuming, and certainly I would have been more involved in the writing process.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Process

• We got to go to Lucas Ranch and, at that time, my brother was still living in a condo about a mile from Robin Williams, and so I made all of the other comics jealous because I got to get a ride home with him.

  

  Carlos Alazraqui
  • Time
  • Home
  • Brother

• Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Life
  • Sister
  • Writer

• Two truths are all too often overshadowed in today's political discourse: Public service is a most honorable pursuit, and so is bipartisanship.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Today
  • Political
  • Service

• I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Day

• After years of research, I discovered 25 differences in the work-life choices of men and women. All 25 lead to men earning more money, but to women having better lives.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Men

• My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Home
  • Technology
  • Air

• Music is changing so quickly, and the landscape of the music industry itself is changing so quickly, that everything new, like Spotify, all feels to me a bit like a grand experiment.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Me
  • New

• It is disheartening when you read an interview with an actress, and it starts by describing what she is wearing.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Actress
  • Interview
  • Wearing

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• As you get older, you start to really ask questions like, 'Is this the road I should be walking down?,' because every decision seems more final, as you get older.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Decision
  • Road
  • Walking

• Breathe through your movements.

  

  Patricia McBride
  • Breathe
  • Through
  • Your

• Sometimes I'm scared of being Ozzy Osbourne. But it could have been worse. I could have been Sting.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath

• I'm from the East Coast, and so therefore, the Pacific Northwest forest is very exotic land to me.

  

  Debra Granik
  • Forest

• I think I would have been a totally different kind of writer if I'd gone to England. I might have developed a cynicism about my origins, a belittling of them, or an excessive nostalgia for them.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • Different

• Coming to grips with my past, it was hard. I don't feel like what I did was so evil, I just feel like the way I was living, and my mentality, was part of my progression to be a man.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Past
  • Progression
  • Grips

• England is an incredible breeding ground for talent, yet it finds it really hard to sustain it or keep it. Once you obtain any kind of success or you step off the island, your ambitions become bigger.

  

  Eugene Souleiman
  • Success
  • Ambition
  • Talent

• I was praised in the U.S. and heavily, brutally criticized in France.

  

  Christine Lagarde