Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
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I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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A great work is made out of a combination of obedience and liberty.
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Being popular comes when you have everything. But to be liked, it means that you must be treating people with respect and you must be showing kindness toward them.
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In my industry, it's important to have people I look to for different things: guidance, inspiration and motivation.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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Clinton has played a major role in giving companies like Cipla credibility, for which I will always be grateful.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.
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I relate to the feeling that Da Vinci was often plagued by the idea that what he did wasn't good enough, that he was his harshest critic. He'd sometimes destroy what he was working on.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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A synopsis is a cold thing. You do it with the front of your mind. If you're going to stay with it, you never get quite the same magic as when you're going all out.
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Libraries...house our dreams.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
