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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The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.
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You may have heard that back in the States there are some people who are smoking grass. I don't know how you feel, but it's sure easier than cutting the stuff.
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Management is the opportunity to help people become better people. Practiced that way, it's a magnificent profession.
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My world view is that it can all go to hell in an instant, and you have to be ready for it. That's pretty much the central theme running through my work. It's about people's awareness of how uncertain life can be and their trying to guard against that.
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If people ask me to describe my look, I always say: 'Quite classic with an edge.'
