Carine Roitfeld Quotes
I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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I just didn't expect an acoustic version of Rock'n'Roll All Nite.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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We must all learn to adjust with our surroundings.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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I call Alibaba '1,001 mistakes.' We expanded too fast, and then in the dot-com bubble, we had to have layoffs. By 2002, we had only enough cash to survive for 18 months. We had a lot of free members using our site, and we didn't know how we'd make money. So we developed a product for China exporters to meet U.S. buyers online. This model saved us.
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I wish I had come along when the studios were making those big musical pictures. It would be great to do re-makes of some of the old ones like 'Porgy and Bess' or 'Showboat.' I'd love to do 'em.
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Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.
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All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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I love my kitchen. On the weekends, we have friends over, the kids are buzzing around, and we cook and talk.
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Madonna and I are very different. Just saying. We're very different. I wouldn't make that comparison at all, and I don't mean to disrespect Madonna: she's a nice lady, and she's had a fantastic, huge career - biggest pop star of all time.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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A lot of newsrooms have thought very carefully about how they cover race. I don't think the same conversations have gone on regarding women.
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Japanese people today think of money, just money: Where is our national spirit today? The Jieitai must be the soul of Japan. … The nation has no spiritual foundation. That is why you don’t agree with me. You will just be American mercenaries. There you are in your tiny world. You do nothing for Japan. … I salute the Emperor. Long live the emperor!
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There must be something strangely sacred about salt. It is in our tears and in the sea
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I always feel that there are no final victories and no final defeats. But it's true that America is in a hole right now. There are a lot of dead fish in the water.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
