Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.
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I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
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I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!
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I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.
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The entertainment industry isn't a line of work encouraged in the Persian culture. When I called my dad to say I wanted to quit medicine, there was about three minutes of silence. I'm not sure he knew what to do with himself!
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I love clothes but I have spent so much of my professional life creating an image of one kind or another that it is nice not to care about it in life and let your skin breathe.
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It takes vision and courage to create - it takes faith and courage to prove.
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I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.
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A lot of times, we look at jazz in eras. How can we not keep those eras separate and think of the language as one complete continuum? It's all interrelated, and it's all evolutionary.
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Sex is a bad thing because it rumples the clothes.
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I don't like books that play to the gallery, but I've become more concerned with telling a story as clearly and engagingly as I can.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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Injustice is relatively easy to bear; what stings is justice.
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Our censorship has sort of gotten a little too far. Too much censorship is just as bad as having none at all. Children need to be exposed to things, because if they don't see it, eventually, it's not like it's not going to happen, but it's just that there needs to be a balance.
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Speaking is physically difficult for me.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.
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Our idea is to serve everybody, including people with little money.
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Jefferson thought schools would produce free men: we prove him right by putting dropouts in jail.
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I've been a Dolphin for 17 years, and I'll be a Dolphin for the rest of my life. That will never change.
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If you are a writer or any kind of artist, if you change something as fundamental as where you live - the way you live - then I think you change the very instrument that is trying to make the art.
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It's hard to say what I want my legacy to be when I'm long gone.
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A salesman called on my wife the other day and tried to sell her a freezer. You'll save a fortune on your food bills, he promised. I can't tell you how much you'll save. It'll be tremendous. Said my wife: I'm sure you're right, but we're already saving a fortune with our new car by not taking the bus. We're saving a fortune with our new washing machine by not sending out the laundry. We're saving a fortune with our new dishwasher by giving up the maid. The plain truth is that right now we just can't afford to save any more!
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If you don't want to get bored with what you're doing, you have to change.
