Carine Roitfeld Quotes
The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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There's nothing like a music festival. People are ready to have a good time. I don't think anyone comes to a festival going, 'I'm gonna be a complete bummer today.'
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We had a few non-fiction books at home, but my dad was of the opinion that fiction was a complete and utter waste of time because it wasn't real - so what was the point of reading it?
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Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.
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Helping people boost themselves out of poverty is the best way to make a lasting positive difference in a person's life.
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The last time I was pulled over was in 2005. I was going 55 in a 35 mile per hour zone - which I don't understand because you can barely even idle at 35 miles per hour. Anyway, I was ordered to go to traffic school. It was an 8-hour class and really painful.
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My audience has really become a very diverse group of people. It's not just 15-year-old girls. That's kind of what allows me to write from all the different places I want to write from.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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What other people think of me is none of my business.
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I get to see life through rose-colored glasses a lot of the time.
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To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.
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I have to thank the People, the Congress, and the Government of the United States for my liberation.
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History is more interesting than most people think.
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But sadly, one of the problems with being on public radio is that people tend to think you're being sincere all the time.
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A lot of these people, these program directors, just like anybody else in the world, even though they're supposed to be leaders in the world, they're followers. They follow what they think someone else is doing, instead of trying to blaze a trail.
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I was barely in grade school when I helped my mother rearrange the living room furniture for the first time.
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I think acting is a fun thing because you get to have so many lifetimes in one lifetime, being all these different people.
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Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
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I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest.
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The reason companies work is because you're able to get a lot of people doing the work; it's not because of this visionary. Steve Jobs didn't make Apple; it was a bunch of people. The building of the right team is an art in and of its own right.
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I sometimes think that, since I started writing biographies, I've had more of a life in books than I have had in my real life.
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The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.
