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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The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
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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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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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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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Write something beautiful and honest and that makes you very proud.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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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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Johnny Carson was a mean-spirited human being. And there are people that he has hurt that people will never know about. And for some reason, at some point, he decided to turn that kind of negative attention toward me. And I refused to have it.
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What I want is to commune with the land. In company I couldn’t admit that. It’d sound too pompous, as though I were from Greenpeace or the People’s Republic of Berkeley.
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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.
