Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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There's a different energy with a female director, a female at the head of the production. I don't prefer one over the other, but they're definitely different experiences, and I would love to have more of them.
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
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In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.
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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.
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I'm just really, really thankful. I'm thankful to the doctors; I'm thankful to the family that donated the kidney.
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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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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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The key is falling in love with something, anything. If your heart's attached to it, then your mind will be attached to it.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
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My mother had a saying: 'Kamala, you may be the first to do many things, but make sure you're not the last.'
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I can't even imagine what it's like and right now I'm like in shock, I can't believe that I'm Olympic Champion.
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Wait long enough, and people will surprise and impress you.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.
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I don't think I had a role model. I just was very inspired by an article which I read in Forbes magazine around the information superhighway and the Arpanet and stuff like that. To me, that intuitively made sense, and when I decided to come to the U.S., I knew exactly what I wanted to go and write about.
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In my opinion, villains are so much more interesting than heroes. So 'Suicide Squad' is just like, wow, so damn awesome.
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I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.
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To me, one of the most beautiful things to see is a group of men coordinating their efforts toward a common goal, alternately subordinating and asserting themselves to achieve real teamwork in action. I tried to do that, we all tried to do that, on the Celtics. I think we succeeded.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
