Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.
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What novels do that biographies don't is get at truths by penetrating the facts, by going deeper to what's underneath fact, through invention.
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I am a Buddhist.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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Steve Jobs has been right twice. The first time we got Apple. The second time we got NeXT. The Macintosh ruled. NeXT tanked. Still, Jobs was right both times.
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It angers me when sustainability gets used as a buzz word. For 90 percent of the world, sustainability is a matter of survival.
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Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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I consider science fiction and fantasy my genre. And I've noticed over the years that there doesn't tend to be a lot of lighthearted, comedic stuff.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Women can stand a beating except when it is with their own weapons.
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Don't get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That's a story. Handled properly, it's more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.
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To play four hands requires two people who have great affinity for each other.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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Nat King Cole was a really big influence.
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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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When I get older, I will be stronger They’ll call me freedom, just like a Wavin’ Flag
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The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.
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You can only see what you believe-nothing else is possible.
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When everything is good, maybe I think it's the time to do something else.
