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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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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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 see myself as a composer who plays music and likes to play with other people, and not just as a solo artist.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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May our lives be born from the beauty of darkness, and shine with the possibility of light.
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The Land of Opportunity is an attitude.
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People say that I could sing the phone book and make it sound good.
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I think where we're still a little bit behind some other countries is just our pure soccer knowledge and our savvy on the field. That takes time and generations that have watched soccer growing up, played the game growing up.
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...not everyone is willing to defend a position of 'not knowing.' There is no virtue in ignorance for its own sake.
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
