Carine Roitfeld Quotes

Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

Carine Roitfeld

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• The only thing that's going to free Huey is gun powder.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • Free
  • Gun
  • Going

• The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Future
  • Enjoy
  • Matter

• I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Me
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• Marxism is an interpretation of history which explains the progress of society as a product of the expansion of the forces of production of the material means of life, that is, the development of economy.

  

  Earl Browder
  • Life
  • History
  • Society

• I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Strong
  • Young
  • Try

• I have come to the conclusion - and I don't know why it took me so long, but nevertheless, I'm here now - that a lot of people tell me they don't get enough guitar on my albums. So I decided to do an album where the guitar would be the singer, playing the melody.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• Living in New York, for me at least, just keeps it very real and keeps my feet firmly planted on the ground.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Me
  • Ground
  • Keeps

• I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • History
  • College
  • Myself

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.

  

  Jackson Pollock
  • Painting
  • Canvas
  • Ever

• I knew nothing about martial arts. And I don't really like it! But in the film, I not only had to pretend that I knew all about it, I had to be the best at it. That was very difficult.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Best
  • Film
  • Difficult

• In chess, you should be as cool as a cucumber.

  

  Yuliya Snigir
  • You
  • Cool
  • Chess

• Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Well
  • Open
  • Desperation

• If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Write
  • Songs
  • Works

• One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

  

  Venus Williams
  • People
  • Good
  • Done

• Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • World
  • Trying
  • Understanding

• This election could come down to just a handful of votes. It could come down to just one vote.

  

  Vicky Hartzler
  • Down
  • Vote
  • Election

• I don't have regrets because they are negative.

  

  Bruce Oldfield

• I'm indie through and through. I've always gone out with boys in bands.

  

  Alexa Chung

• To write a genuine familiar or truly English style is to write as anyone would speak in common conversation, who had a thorough command and choice of words, or who could discourse with ease, force, and perspicuity, setting aside all pedantic and oratorical flourishes.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • Writing
  • Style
  • Choices

• Music creates order out of chaos: for rhythm imposes unanimity upon the divergent, melody imposes continuity upon the disjointed, and harmony imposes compatibility upon the incongruous.

  

  Yehudi Menuhin
  • Music
  • Chaos
  • Harmony

• It is not me who is to be noticed. It is my work.

  

  Anouska Hempel
  • Work

• Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Black
  • Strong
  • Simple