Carine Roitfeld Quotes

At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

Carine Roitfeld

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• What surprised me about the Oscars was how familiar it was - because you're in the room with all these people that have inspired you from your childhood to adulthood in the film industry. It feels like you've known them all of your life.

  

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• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

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• There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.

  

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• I can give you a six-word formula for success: Think things through - then follow through.

  

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• You'd believe that a patient with hypertension, if you know you have hypertension or diabetes, you would take your drug every day. The compliance rate is more like 30% or 40%. Which means that 60% of patients don't take their drugs, and they actually go into these crises, end up in the hospital.

  

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• I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.

  

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• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

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  • Beginning
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• I have the potential to be very strong and powerful, sometimes angry, sometimes passionate. I also can be shy and withhold that because I am afraid. I don't want to freak anybody out with my passion... So I struggle with that all the time.

  

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• I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

  

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• I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.

  

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• What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.

  

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• I want to have an impact on my son.

  

  Orlando Bloom
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• And we have done more in the two and a half years that I've been in here than the previous 43 Presidents to uphold that principle, whether it's ending 'don't ask, don't tell,' making sure that gay and lesbian partners can visit each other in hospitals, making sure that federal benefits can be provided to same-sex couples.

  

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• Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.

  

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• You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.

  

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• I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.

  

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• I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.

  

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• No one can live entirely on their own, nor can any country or society exist in isolation.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
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• When people play action games, they're changing the brain's pathway responsible for visual processing. These games push the human visual system to the limits, and the brain adapts to it.

  

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• Labor, with its coarse raiment and its bare right arm, has gone forth in the earth, achieving the truest conquests and rearing the most durable monuments. It has opened the domain of matter and the empire of the mind. The wild beast has fled before it, and the wilderness has fallen back.... its triumphal march is the progress of civilization.

  

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• I shed many a tear when the steam engines went out of style on the railroads. I'd like to seem them come back, but I realize the diesels are more efficient.

  

  Clyde Tombaugh
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• I think I would cope like anyone copes with any tragedy. I'm sure I would be very upset for a while and then there would come a point where I would either have to stay in this place of darkness and anger, or I'd have to accept that it happened.

  

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• At the start, I had no idea to go into fashion, because I thought people would think I was stupid. I don't worry about those things anymore.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Fashion
  • Worry