Carine Roitfeld Quotes
Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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Whether you listen to a piece of music, or a poem, or look at a picture or a jug, or a piece of sculpture, what matters about it is not what it has in common with others of its kind, but what is singularly its own.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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I play Nitin Sawhney's 'Letting Go' repeatedly, nonstop. I find it transformative. I'm so glad iPods were invented so I didn't have to drive everyone around me mad with the repetition.
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Sustainable development is the pathway to the future we want for all. It offers a framework to generate economic growth, achieve social justice, exercise environmental stewardship and strengthen governance.
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Not every woman has time to go to a salon and have her hair blow-dried every day.
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The highest art is always the most religious, and the greatest artist is always a devout person.
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Be who you are and be that well.
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Entrenched scriptural literalism is, in my opinion, completely out of touch with reality.
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There comes a time when every scientist, even God, has to write off an experiment.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Actors don't have real value.
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To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
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There are a lot of magazines that are still sort of... that only cater to a certain demographic and only put certain people on their covers.
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Sleep is probably my favorite activity. I wrote this piece out of gratitude that I'm able to sleep well as an offering to people who don't.
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I'd say I'm the opposite of someone that has the urge to stand in front of strangers and make them laugh, but the idea of getting up and telling a story and people finding it amusing always appealed to me.
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Tell the truth, because sooner or later the public will find out anyway. And if the public doesn't like what you are doing, change your policies and bring them into line with what people want.
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Fashion isn't something you can buy; you need to have the sense of it, and most people don't.
