Carine Roitfeld Quotes
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Slack users I know, including me, love many things about the service. As the company likes to brag, it's fast, it's transparent, and it's great for brainstorming.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I've been told I sold 110m albums and singles. If that's the case, I should've come here in a space rocket.
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To deal with what you have to deal with as mayor or president, there has to be an overriding psychological or professional or emotional gratification that would let you go through all the angst.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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For us, overseas employment addresses two major problems: unemployment and the balance of payments position.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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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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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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Your ability to shape your future depends on how well you communicate where you want to be when you get there. When ideas are communicated effectively, people follow and change.
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Today's brains are yesterday's mashed potatoes.
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I've had pretty good success with Stan (Musial) by throwing him my best pitch and backing up third.
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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.
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I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.
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What's so kind of beautiful about the whole thing was that everything that made me not right for all of those hundreds of commercial auditions that I went on and no one ever wanted me for is what made me perfectly right for 'Real Women Have Curves'.
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I love ballet because you can see how beautiful the body is.
