Carine Roitfeld Quotes

I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

Carine Roitfeld

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Gay teenagers are four times as likely to attempt suicide as straight ones. I wish they knew that there's nothing wrong with them; that they are just a different shade of normal.

Jodi Picoult

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There are many types of participation. One can observe so intensely that one becomes part of the action, but without being an active participant.

Jerzy Kosinski

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I believe in humanitarian capitalism, and there are good people on Wall Street.

Andrew Young

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Here on Earth, we're exposed to asteroids hitting the Earth, eventual changes in the Sun, changes in the Earth's climate, things we're doing to the Earth's climate. If we want to survive, we need to become a multi-planet species. That's further down the road, but the first wave is going to be the explorers.

John M. Grunsfeld

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The CIA held about a hundred detainees from 2002 to 2008; about a third of them underwent interrogations that have been variously described as enhanced, tough or torture. The toughest technique was water boarding, used on three detainees, the last in early 2003.

Michael Hayden

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'Conexao,' which means 'connection' in Portuguese, is about exploring the more nuanced highs and lows of romance.

Amber Mark

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A reversal is just anything that's a surprise. It's a way of keeping the audience interested.

Tony Gilroy

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My days, if they start in the morning with a cuddle from my son, are just so much more glorious than they were prior to that.

Russell Crowe

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What I would tell a kid with ADHD and dyslexia or someone who struggles with anything in life is this: 'When you put your mind to it, you can do anything.'

Michelle Carter

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I believe very deeply in the proposition that what we did in Iraq was the right thing to do. It was hard to do. It took a long time. There were significant costs involved.

Dick Cheney

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People say, 'You look so great for your age,' and I say, 'OK, you can leave off the 'for your age' part. Can we all stop qualifying it?'

Christie Brinkley

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A guy that I was supposed to face - and I think that he was just plain downright scared to get in the ring with me because he was one of those guys that was on top and saw a huge threat in Brock Lesnar at the time - that's 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin.

Brock Lesnar

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