Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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There is nothing out there that I have a grudge against or I have a problem with.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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I have the greatest love for the rituals of organised religion - the sense of community and belonging it can confer to people. But me, I'm more a questioner than a follower; not by whim or fashion, but as a decision painfully arrived at after much, much thought.
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'Glee' is one of the very few mainstream outlets that is giving a voice to communities of people that don't necessarily have a loud voice, specifically the gay community. It gives a really positive and forward statement.
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We have shown that it is possible to create a radioactivity characterized by the emission of positive or negative electrons in boron and magnesium by bombardment with alpha rays.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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To me, creatively challenging myself is my version of owning the Nets.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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You have to decide who you are going to serve - stockholders or your customers.
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I am a Zionist.
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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Carole King is one of my dearest friends. Were like family.
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Some say they see poetry in my paintings; I see only science.
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When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit.
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I always find that the more Jewish you are, the more people respect you.
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Like most Russians, I am very superstitious, and if I don't get married, I don't get divorced.
