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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Having served in the Nixon Administration, I am well aware of how the political leadership of an administration can try to politicize the civil service, including law enforcement.
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Just like I am obsessed with the history of fashion, I love reading about the history of makeup.
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I have found in experiments, people become used to the robots. The less startling they become, the more commonplace they get. If these robots do become commonplace, then that uncanny effect will go away.
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It is a pet peeve of mine when people throw around arguments citing 'Fair Use' and yet fail to actually explain what a fair use argument actually is.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
