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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People have told me I look like Gordon Lightfoot.
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People make you feel like a bad guy for asking for seven quid for your album, like you are slapping them in the face, when they'll go and pay two grand for a scarf somebody knitted in a sweat shop and stitched a designer label on.
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'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
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It's always fun when people ask you for advice.
