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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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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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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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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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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If I feel like I need a little color, I'll get a natural spray tan. Not only does this give me a little extra coverage, but it also allows me to achieve the bronzed look I want without the sun damage.
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It's great living with your best friends.
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The shows I've been working on, especially 'Parenthood' and 'Friday Night Lights,' I think are completely character-driven stories. I think, for most writers, that's a privilege to be telling those kinds of stories. It's erroneous to me.
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The best feeling in the world is when you child just comes up to you and lays their head in your lap, for no other reason but just because.
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I love long sentences. My big heroes of fiction writing are Henry James and Proust - people who recognise that life doesn't consist of declarative statements, but rather modifications, qualifications and feelings.
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I have been astonished that men could die martyrs for religion - I have shuddered at it. I shudder no more - I could be martyred for my religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that.
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Something happens when two people look at each other, and they have a cellular connection. It's like when their hearts connect as well as their souls.
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Paris is mostly retired people - I love it, and it's a beautiful city, but it's quite slow.
