Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
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My vision for the future always centers around our children - it always centers around our children. So anytime anybody asks me what are the three most important issues facing the Congress, I always say the same thing: 'Our children, our children, our children.'
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!
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I love working the legislative process.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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It's not that I don't want a fast car. I like the speed. I'm just not the type of person who finds a sports car a sexy car.
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I don't think taunting chants at players on the other side of the ice is intended to be sexist in the slightest. It's like when you call a goaltender a sieve, they chant that. Is that now inappropriate also?
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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The bottom line is the Kiss Army is growing by leaps and bounds.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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When news of the first plane's hitting the World Trade Center reached them, bin Laden's followers exploded with joy. But shrewder members of al-Qaeda and the Taliban leadership in Afghanistan realized that the attacks might not be the stunning victory that bin Laden, and many in the West, took them to be.
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In ten episodes, we were able to do our writers' room first. We did that all summer and wrote for 15 weeks and got everything in really good shape.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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I wanted to be a dancer my whole life. And when I gave it up to act, I always had a really sad part of myself that missed it and missed performing and missed being physical in that way.
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The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
