"I am not mean at all, I am not tough at all."

-- Carine Roitfeld

#Mean Quotes #Tough Quotes

“Nations are in effect ceding portions of their sovereignty to the international community and beginning to create a new system of international environmental governance.”
“There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.”
“Despite the opposition, trials, and temptations, you need not fail or fear.”
“In a way, watching an attractive, potentially dangerous guy play guitar is a little like watching a tiger agree to do tricks for his trainer. You know that they could just turn and kill you. But you're so flattered and pleased that instead they agreed to stand on a decorative box and wave and count for the crowd that for a while you forget how big the scary part of them really is.”
“I think if they put a laugh track on 'Intervention,' it would be funny.”
“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.”

Source : Mark McMorris (2003). “The Blaze of the Poui: Poems”, p.69, University of Georgia Press
“If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.”
“I came to the country [U.S] without speaking a word of English, without a penny, worked full time, 40 hours a week, went to school full time, opened my own small business, ended up being a multi-millionaire. If I can do it, without even knowing the language, anybody can do it. All it takes is determination, perseverance, and like Winston Churchill said: 'Never, never, never, never give up.'"”

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