Carine Roitfeld Quotes
My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.
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We did not have a television while I was growing up, and so I read voraciously. My earliest memory of being utterly transfixed by a book was Madeleine L'Engle's 'A Wrinkle in Time.'
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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Nothing is to come, and nothing past: But an eternal now, does always last.
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We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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I think politics today is all about false choices: You can have a robust energy economy and a challenged environment, or a great environment and no economy. That's a false choice. You can do both.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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I have a deep fascination with human nature, with all its virtues and all its defects.
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It seems to me,' said Magid finally, as the moon became clearer than the sun, 'that you have tried to love a man as if he were an island and you were shipwrecked and you could mark the land with an X. It seems to me it is too late in the day for all that.' Then he gave her a kiss on the forehead that felt like a baptism and she wept like a baby.
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Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.
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Every minute with a child takes seven minutes off your life.
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The wise man reads both books and life itself.
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[Cultural relativism] licenses the envy of the untalented, giving rise to what has been called the revenge of failure: Those who cannot paint destroy the canons of painting; those who cannot write reject canonical literature.
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My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine.
