Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
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• I like to prove people wrong.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Like
  • Wrong

• I don't like people cleaning my room.

  

  Larry David
  • People
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• What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.

  

  Randy Newman
  • Years
  • Better
  • Consistency

• Diving has been in the game for years. Probably the coverage the game gets now, with all the cameras around, it gets highlighted a bit more. But it hasn't got any worse.

  

  Wayne Rooney
  • Game
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  • Now

• I like risky stuff.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Like
  • Stuff
  • Risky

• It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Success
  • Years
  • Overnight

• Excessive speed and quantity are, like chattiness and digression, besetting sins of cyber-assisted authorship.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Like
  • Speed
  • Quantity

• My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

  

  Ted Olson
  • World
  • Wife
  • Taken

• Downstairs in my house, I have a museum room. I keep all of my awards down there, and childhood photos, and even all the clothes I've worn on tour, in videos and on album covers.

  

  R. Kelly
  • House
  • Childhood
  • Clothes

• My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.

  

  Rani Mukerji
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  • Understanding

• I tried being anorexic for four hours, and then I was like, I need some bagels.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Like
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• Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • May
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  • Like

• I decide immediately if I like a person and if I do, then I'm myself, and if I don't, then I give nothing.

  

  P. J. Harvey
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• I started playing trumpet when I was 11 years old. All I wanted to be was a jazz trumpet player when I grew up.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
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• Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.

  

  Felicity Jones
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• I don't feel like I'm grown up. I feel like I'm a kid.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
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• There is nothin' like a dame.

  

  Oscar Hammerstein II
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• Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment, childhood memories, and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Up
  • Good
  • Feeling

• Unlike the time sink of binge-watching a TV series, podcasts actually made me more efficient. Practically every dull activity - folding laundry, applying makeup - became tolerable when I did it while listening to a country singer describing his hardscrabble childhood, or a novelist defending her open marriage.

  

  Pamela Druckerman
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  • Country
  • Marriage

• We don't understand why we're here, no one's giving us an answer, religion is vague, your parents can't help because they're just people, and it's all terrible, and there's no meaning to anything.

  

  Adam Driver
  • People
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  • Help

• I'm not a big sports fan.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Sports
  • Fan
  • Big

• Right from the start Abigail used to moan and fidget as her hair was relaxed or braided or thermally reconditioned, but her dad was determined that his child wasn’t going to embarrass him in public. That all stopped when Abigail turned eleven and calmly announced that she had ChildLine on speed‑dial and the next person who came near her with a hair extension, chemical straightener, or, God forbid, a hot comb, was going to end up explaining their actions to Social Services.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
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• My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

  

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