Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I got to grow up in an incredibly artistic family.
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Once you come and see Kiss, you either love us or you hate us.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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Modeling is one of the few professions where women out-earn men, and that's because we're more valuable objects and ornaments.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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Sometimes street knowledge can be as important as book knowledge.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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A lot of people are quite discouraged by the process of getting healthy because, one, they think they can't afford it, and two, it's daunting. I wanted to start a dialogue. Because you won't be able to even get there until you actually accept yourself and start connecting with yourself.
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It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust.
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At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
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We need to make everyone more aware of the benefits of empowering women. Then I think we can succeed faster. Because it's one thing to achieve success, and another to repeat success. That's the job of a leader. Promoting women leadership and creating a more level playing field is a huge enabler to repeat success.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
