Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

Carine Roitfeld

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• Not to oversimplify it, somebody once said a good rule of thumb in interpreting a character is to find the good in the bad people that you portray and the bad in the good.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • People
  • Good
  • Character

• People are wiser than we are willing to attribute to them.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • Willing
  • Wiser

• Let's not just look at it as taking votes away from Gore. Our support comes from a lot of people.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • People
  • Support
  • Look

• I try to get in people's heads. My job is to get the ball, so if I'm talking trash to an O-lineman or quarterback or receiver, and they start thinking about me, that's good, because they aren't thinking about the game anymore.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.

  

  Ian McShane
  • People
  • Think
  • Before

• Writing is like a contact sport, like football. You can get hurt, but you enjoy it.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Writing
  • Football
  • Hurt

• In the course of the 1920s and 1930s, great progress was made in the study of the intermediary reactions by which sugar is anaerobically fermented to lactic acid or to ethanol and carbon dioxide.

  

  Hans Adolf Krebs
  • Great
  • Study
  • Progress

• Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

  

  Karen Kain
  • People
  • Love
  • Remember

• In New York, you walk everywhere, so you're amongst people all of the time, and everybody is in a hurry and going somewhere or has something on their minds. And in L.A., it's still much more of a laid-back life, at least in my experience.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I feel like, sometimes, when things are just handed to people, in a way, right away, you don't get a sense of what the rejection and the struggle is like that comes along with life.

  

  Fiona Dourif
  • People
  • Life
  • Struggle

• If you play cricket for India, money is bound to come, and with IPL in and match money of the Ranjhi trophy, I think money is there. There's no good reason why you should not work hard, because at the end of the day, you want to play for your country.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Good
  • Work
  • Country

• A lot of people don't realize that hair is a big thing for a lot of people, not just African-American women. It's something to be aware of and to be cautious of.

  

  Zendaya
  • People
  • Women
  • American

• I was going to try to get into the creative writing program at Berkeley; it's just that the acting thing worked out.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Writing
  • Acting
  • Creative

• I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • People
  • Reality
  • Fake

• I'm not very cool. I have a really hard time meeting people and stuff.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • People
  • Time
  • Cool

• I grew up with the one of the most famous fathers in the world in the 1960s and '70s. He passed away in 1984, and as time went on, people didn't know him. That blew me away.

  

  Kate Burton
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• When I was out in Georgia doing photographs, I found myself trying to undo my own sense of composition. I'd think, 'Why do I want to take it like this? Is it because I want to take a beautiful picture?' It's quite hard to try and undo it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Beautiful

• I perhaps ought to say that individually I never was much interested in the Texas question. I never could see much good to come of annexation, inasmuch as they were already a free republican people on our own model.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Good
  • Free

• I don't have anybody telling me what to say. I have people who would suggest, maybe, that I shouldn't do this, that or the other, but that's strictly up to me.

  

  Morgan Freeman
  • People
  • Suggest

• Ideas are worthless. Execution is everything.

  

  Scott Adams
  • Ideas
  • Execution
  • Worthless

• Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Music
  • Think
  • You

• I do not believe that there is an external element to be disrupted now. The situation is different from the period of the Dadaists. There is nothing to overthrow now, because everything has been co-opted. To be subversive now in the sense of Dadaism would be reactionary, because now it would be the attitude of model students..

  

  Anselm Kiefer
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Period

• When large numbers of people share their joy in common, the happiness of each is greater because each adds fuel to the other's flame.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • People
  • Joy

• I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Great
  • Writing