Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  

  Nawal El Saadawi
  • Surgery
  • Plastic Surgery

• Is the button white or orange or green or yellow? Does it say 'sell', or 'sell now', or 'on sale' or 'for sale'? You test, you test, you test and most of the ideas you try fail and so I would argue I failed my way to success.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • Success
  • Ideas
  • Green

• I'm very obsessed with 'The Real Housewives' franchise. It's a bad obsession.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Real
  • Bad
  • Obsession

• As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Great
  • Women
  • Mother

• It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • World
  • Writing
  • Women

• And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.

  

  Ian McDiarmid
  • Believe
  • Job
  • True

• You can't tag me as a regional actress.

  

  Yami Gautam
  • You
  • Me
  • Actress

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Kind
  • Street

• I think that our civilisation is very much a visual civilisation - television and videos and all this.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Think
  • Television
  • Visual

• Everybody has their struggles.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Everybody
  • Struggles

• Thoughts are fine when you don't confuse them with who you are, and then thoughts are not a problem. Thinking is a wonderful tool to create things in this world. It only becomes problematic and a source of suffering when you confuse thinking with who you are.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Problem

• As the great grandchildren of the industrial revolution, we have learned, at last, that the heedless pursuit of more is unsustainable and, ultimately, unfulfilling. Our planet, our security, our sense of equanimity and our very souls demand something better, something different.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Great
  • Different
  • Revolution

• Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Flying
  • Calm
  • Rattle

• I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • People
  • Life
  • My Life

• I have always loathed working out.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Always
  • Working
  • Out

• The more activity around Chicago-based companies, and the more success that entrepreneurs have in Chicago, the better we as venture capitalists in Chicago will do.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Success
  • Better
  • Chicago

• There's definitely a whole different vibe on the set when there's like basically royalty working with us. We could have whatever we wanted. I felt like Britney Spears.

  

  Taryn Manning Boomkat
  • Different
  • Like
  • Working

• I'm not very good at sticking at things if I can't be successful at them. I gave up on sport a long time ago.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Now I'm hunched over a typewriterI guess you call that paintin' in a caveAnd there's a word I can't rememberand a feeling I cannot escape

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Feeling

• A large nose is in fact the sign of an affable man, good, courteous, witty, liberal, courageous, such as I am.

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Good
  • Witty
  • Liberal

• No man need go blindly to destruction, for God has given him guidance and power of seeing whither he goes.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Power
  • Man

• For there is no virtue, the honour and credit for which procures a man more odium from the elite than that of justice; and this, because more than any other, it acquires a man power and authority among the common people. For they only honour the valiant and admire the wise, while in addition they also love just men, and put entire trust and confidence in them.

  

  Plutarch
  • Man
  • Confidence
  • Wise

• I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Age
  • Man