Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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The thing about inspiration is that it takes your mind off everything else.
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I'm more interested in producing than acting.
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There's nothing more fun than making fun of what's sacred.
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I've always been like this - insecure - because I'm striving for something that can't be attained. I don't just want to be OK at this: I want to be the best at it, and I've never achieved that in my mind.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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It's a question of not copying the masters, to look for something, good or bad, for oneself. To enter this liberated state of mind, one cannot copy the others.
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Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.
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In my mind, every single female character I've written is plus-size.
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I haven't been drinking for years now. Something's got to give. I don't mind that I'm a guy that's stopped drinking, though this interview is making me mighty thirsty.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.
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I'm so suspicious of our own understanding of the past. I just think that your mind plays absolute tricks on you and fools you every minute of every day. And so when you're talking about the past, you're talking about something that never happened. At least it didn't happen the way you think it happened.
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How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.
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I don't mind a crowd's not laughing; it's the groans that slow down the show.
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In the military, and in business, the most elite and effective teams I've seen or been part of are filled with individuals who take responsibility for their choices. Life is a series of decisions that you make and actions you take, not a series of things that happen to you.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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Illusion begets and sustains the world; we do not destroy one without destroying the other. Which is what I do every day. An apparently ineffectual operation, since I must begin all over again the next day.
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It's really weird to be taken seriously for what you're wearing. It makes me want to wear a uniform.
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I'm German in my mind, but from a Germany that doesn't exist any more.
