Carine Roitfeld Quotes
When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Barbara Castle was a hero to millions of British women. She inspired a new generation of women to become active in Labour politics, including, of course Labour's deputy leader, Harriet Harman.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Chet loved artists. He did. But he was caught up in the system. He had two hats. He had to have 'em because he did two things: he was an artist, and he was an executive.
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I think it's OK to be confident in yourself.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Going back to my own past as a reader, I was a big, big reader of romances, particularly as a teenager, the age that my books are aimed at.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Yes, women should be free to cover their faces when walking down the street. But in our schools, hospitals, airports, banks and civil institutions, it is not unreasonable - nor contrary to the teachings of Islam - to expect women to show the one thing that allows the rest of us to identify them... namely, their face.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Actively deciding to give to causes that move you deeply is far more fulfilling than the momentary gratification derived from signing a check and mailing it to a nonprofit about which you know little more than what's on the brochure they sent you.
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The first aspect of a business that you need to make it work well is money. Once the money aspect is flowing, you can freely work on other aspects.
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I'm just another guy who likes his job and doesn't like his commute.
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I have never worried about 'Frontline' becoming an old-fashioned news brand, because we never were.
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I've always been someone who some people like and some people don't like.
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I love acting as a passion. It's something that is really fulfilling to me. But the core of it, which is one of its most difficult aspects, is that it's commission-based.
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When Tom Ford asked me to consult for Gucci, I had never consulted in my life. I didn't know what consulting was, and look, we made something amazing.
