Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I say that America has become an empire, someone is sure to say I'm being ridiculous.
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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There are a lot of really great cartoonists out there. It's nice to be thought of as one of them.
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I look at it this way. I'm not putting age limits on what I can do. As long as I can do the job to help the team win and feel like I'm playing at a high level, which I feel I can do for a long while, I'm going to play no matter what my age is.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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I love dressing up in superhero outfits and in fact, when I dress up as Wonder Woman, I actually think that I'm more powerful.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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My celeb crush is Julia Louis-Dreyfus. She's hysterical, she's beautiful, and she seems like a normal person. I'm in love with her.
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If you're making music for all the right reasons, people are going to be receptive to that and appreciate it the same way you did when your were writing it.
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I'm a big fan of Katy Perry.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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I was excited when King's College announced a scholarship for students who are in developing countries.
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Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
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I have a blog in Chinese, which you can follow, Chinese signs. But I don't even update at all, often I don't.
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Thus did my siblings and I learn one of the hard lessons of life: the best way to strip the allure and dreaminess from a lifelong dream is, very often, simply to have it come true.
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Peace is a day-to-day problem, the product of a multitude of events and judgments. Peace is not an 'is,' it is a 'becoming.'
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Don't fall into the trap of putting yourself last on the list or not even putting yourself on the list. That's not balance; it's not even healthy.
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Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
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Modesty means admitting the possibility of error, subsuming the self for the good of the whole, remaining open to surprise and the gifts that only failure can bring. There are many ways to practice it. Try taking up golf. Or making your own bagels. Or raising a teenager.
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Just because someone is holding a gun doesn't make an image controversial. It all depends on where you put the gun, who is holding it.
