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.

Carine Roitfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: editor
  • Nationality:
  • Birth: September 19, 1954

Topics

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We need financial regulation that allows businesses and the banks they use to have access to the tools that help keep prices of consumer goods - like groceries and home heating oil - steady, while ensuring that the taxpayers are never again on the hook for the types of wild bets that helped crash the economy in 2008.

Jim Himes

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I was living with my mom in a tiny apartment in Chula Vista, near Third and H Street behind the 7-Eleven. It was crazy to be on the phone with Stevie Wonder. I felt like a meteor hit our apartment!

Andra Day

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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations.

Alva Myrdal

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Most of us function under the model we have to get something in order to do something, in order to be something. If this happens, then I will be happy. And I'm suggesting to you that we live our entire lives based on that model, and that model is fundamentally flawed.

Srikumar Rao

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I suspect that with men like General Petraeus, where honor means something - losing your life is secondary to losing your honor.

Trey Gowdy

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I'm a guy who likes to keep fighting five, six times a year, so if I ask for too much money, they might say, 'Well, we pay you too much. We can't let you keep jumping backwards and forwards and promote it.' The money I'm making is good to keep grabbing short-notice fights. I love them; they're my favorite ones.

Donald Cerrone

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I couldn't hit a home run to save my life, and I was a sucker for the curveball.

Brooks Koepka

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Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.

Antony Gormley

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I think a theater show is a pure version of me doing my material. The theater crowd is a bit more polite, there really aren't hecklers, and there are a lot of people there to see me, and they're excited about the jokes and hanging out with me for a show.

Anthony Jeselnik

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There were no good bands in my town. You know, there's like this magic town where every kid started a band in high school, and half of them were good and have careers based on relationships built at that time? That wasn't what my life was like at all.

Autre Ne Veut

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Suspicion is the companion of mean souls, and the bane of all good society.

Thomas Paine

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I'm not that interesting!

Lindsay Davenport

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