Carine Roitfeld Quotes
It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
Quotes to Explore
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There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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The psychology of women hitherto actually represents a deposit of the desires and disappointments of men.
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The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.
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Excuse my voice - I don't have the thundering voice I used to have to get players going on the ice anymore.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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It's very scary to turn things down, but a project has to really mean something to me. I'm not interested in making a lot of money.
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By accepting what the external structures have told us we need to do, we have given the power of our realities and ourselves to others. It is time to tell a new story for women, and that can only start with women.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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Literature overtakes history, for literature gives you more than one life. It expands experience and opens new opportunities to readers.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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I've turned into one of those people who go jogging in parks that I used to hate.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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If you've got a big gut and you start doing sit-ups, you are going to get bigger because you build up the muscle. You've got to get rid of that fat! How do you get rid of fat? By changing your diet.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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My mother is the reason I'm in fashion. She worshiped it. Unfortunately, she infected me.
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After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
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'Dream Act' kids are like all other American kids, with the exception that they have to work harder to excel in school, they live in fear of deportation, and they worry about their future.
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And suddenly all your troubles melt away, all your worries are gone, and it is for no reason other than the look in your partner's eyes. Yes, sometimes life and love really is that simple.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Dear Senator Leahy, thank you for your recent letter asking my views on the proposed flag protection amendment. I love our flag, our Constitution and our country with a love that has no bounds. I defended all three for 35 years as a soldier and was willing to give my life in their defense.
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It's true I always like to mix femininity and something a bit masculine. It's the reason I love skirts with high heels and tights, and no handbag because I love having my hands in my pockets.
