Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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If large numbers of people believe they have no shot at a better life in the future, they will work less hard and generate fewer new ideas and businesses. The economy, as a whole, will be poorer.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.
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If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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Life is a canvas of many strokes where shades from different palettes meet into a picture so concrete that some forget it is their own, so become framed themselves.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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My instinct is to be very controlling.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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It's great that people are interested in Mars.
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Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
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For me, religious festivals and celebrations have become an important way to teach my children about how we can transform living with diversity from the superficial 'I eat ethnic food', to something dignified, mutually respectful and worthwhile.
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Create the world you want, and fill it with the opportunities that matter to you.
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Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.
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A true preacher is best measured not by how many bouquets have been pinned on him but by how many brickbats have been pitched at him. Prophets have been on the receiving end of mud more than medals.
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I think it is a sad reflection on our civilisation that while we can and do measure the temperature in the atmosphere of Venus, we do not know what goes on inside our souffles.
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When a designer creates, he looks at the world around him.
