Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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I like to see a good scientific bout by men who know the use of their hands but would rather walk twenty miles than see animals in strife.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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You must be independent and able to do for yourself. Then you do not have to marry a rich man; you can marry a poor one. And if it is wrong, you can go.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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When I was being brought up, we weren't allowed to wallow in self-pity, which was a thoroughly good thing. We were all fine and healthy because that was what we were told to be.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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In essence, capitalist systems are a mechanism by which economies may generate growth in knowledge - with much uncertainty in the process, owing to the incompleteness of knowledge.
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In our tabulation of psychoanalytic results, we have classed those who stopped treatment together with those not improved. This appears to be reasonable; a patient who fails to finish his treatment, and is not improved, is surely a therapeutic failure.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I want to be able to say what's on my mind and in my heart and what I think is helpful and useful without somebody getting angry, some special interest group deciding this is the time to silence a voice of dissent and attack affiliates, attack sponsors. I'm sort of done with that.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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The voters in District 8 shared our vision that Washington is broken, and we're going to go up there and fix it.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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If you're a big celebrity, you get money to be private. I'm just a working stiff. I don't get bodyguards or alarm systems.
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Compassion is ethical intelligence: it is the capacity to make connections and the consequent urge to act to relieve the suffering of others.
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The way I see it, the expensive people who get hired when you have money are the fancy people who tell you what you can't do.
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I loved every minute of working in wardrobe. But I love being an actress so much more. I don't think I was very good in costume, so it's better that I prefer being an actress.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
