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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Two of my theatres are 1930s and the other five are by Sprague, the greatest Edwardian architect of the lot. They've needed a lot of work doing to them but they were built very well.
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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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A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.
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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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I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.
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I'm one of the best finishers in the business, so I went for it.
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The only way I see the world now is through coming out of and growing up and living in Somalia. In the time of war, everyone was basically trying to live and manage the best they could. But you also had another period which was not a hard time at all - it was just a beautiful time. I lived in both eras.
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Stand close around, ye Stygian set,with Dirce in the boat conveyed,Lest Charon, seeing her, forget,That he is old and she a shade.
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Fashion is a completely international business.
