Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
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I was quite nervous about meeting William's father, but he was very, very welcoming, very friendly, it couldn't have gone easier really for me.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I'm training and preparing because nothing is predictable in boxing. I'm preparing for those rounds, and if it happens that I get a shot, whatever advantage I have, I will be ready for 12 rounds.
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Money brings a lot of responsibility as to what you're going to do with it, and I've given quite a bit of thought to that.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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I shifted my career when I was 44 to quit the Washington beats. I had a great Washington beat, a series of them, and I quit to start my tech column, which was a different kind of tech column.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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I had no idea who I was when I started. I was frightened to death and had no natural performing skills.
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To develop drugs for people, we basically dismantle the system. In the lab, we look at things the size of a cell or two. We dismantle life into very small models.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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If you saw pictures of me as a kid, you'd laugh because I was always in football kit.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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I usually get up between 7 A.M. and 8 A.M., have coffee, and go right to work. It's really important not to get sidetracked in the morning so I'm still in that dreamy state for my writing.
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I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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I think, in Spain, they are too used to reaching the limits of democracy and then stepping over them.
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But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.
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I do not have very much office experience.
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I believe in a tongue-first exploration of the world. Food is our most immediate daily relationship to our ecosystem, and there is something delectable and intriguing about it.
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We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
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Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.
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Sometimes, when you go to airport and look at the people, you see the worst looks - but the worst looks can give you more ideas than the best looks.
