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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Everywhere in the world, we're aware that democracy has incredible flaws and that the word has been used, especially in the United States, to wage wars.
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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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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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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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On a lot of shows that I've done, we had the same directors, which was cool. But then, it's also great to do shows where the director changes every week, because you get to see all these different personalities and see what you like dealing with better, as an actor.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons - to make money, to be in the company of my friends - and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.
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I just don't see why people are treated differently or with a different set of rules. It's just wrong.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
