Carine Roitfeld Quotes

'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

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• Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Work
  • Great
  • Pretty

• I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.

  

  Harlan Ellison
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Stupid

• I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • Up
  • School
  • Day

• Time is generally the best doctor.

  

  Ovid
  • Time
  • Best
  • Medical

• I'm totally a geek.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Geek
  • Totally

• When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

  

  Lao Tzu
  • People
  • Work
  • Done

• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Space
  • Resources
  • Weight

• Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.

  

  Yelawolf
  • Feel
  • White
  • Just Because

• When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Right
  • Him
  • Bully

• No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • End
  • Corruption
  • Incidents

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Respect
  • Passion
  • Proud

• I'm not looking to go out there and make a rhythmic Timbaland track.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • Looking
  • Make
  • Go

• The transparency of a metaphor displays the glint of truth. But if a metaphor is taken for a reality, it then becomes dense and masks the truth it is meant to display.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Taken

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• The biggest killer of people is food.

  

  Fat Joe
  • People
  • Food
  • Killer

• Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Humor
  • Weapon
  • Incredible

• The final phone call that said we're going to be picked up again was just a miracle. We've overcome the impossible and we're still pushing forward. I know John is smiling and so happy that he gets to watch us on TV.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Impossible

• I've had to gain weight for roles and ugly myself up for roles. So yeah, I'm game. I'm game for that kind of thing. I'm certainly not too vain in that respect. If it's a great role, I'm willing to do whatever it is that it takes.

  

  Jewel Staite
  • Up
  • Great
  • Game

• When you care about something, that's when you want to save it. I want to bring that to storytelling - to make saving the world sexy.

  

  Ashlan Gorse Cousteau
  • World
  • Sexy

• When you are with everyone but me, you're with no one. When you are with no one but me, you're with everyone. Instead of being so bound up with everyone, be everyone. When you become that many, you're nothing. Empty.

  

  Rumi
  • You
  • Everyone
  • No One

• The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Freedom
  • Day
  • Wisdom

• 'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • World
  • You
  • Vogue