Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
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I don't deal in pretentious kids' parties.
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My biggest fear in life is to be average.
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On average, since 9/11, the FBI reckons that just over 100,000 terrorism leads each year have come over the transom. Analysts and agents designate them as immediate, priority or routine, but the bureau says every one is covered.
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The ADA allows persons with disabilities the opportunity to participate in the world around them.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost.
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I would like to be mates with Richard Branson because I've hung out with him and he is just the loveliest person and obviously a very rich guy and has a lot of stuff going on, but he's actually a really, really sound person, and he's really positive and he's got a really good energy, so I'd like to hang out with him a bit more.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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The music is key. It has the power to transport you. I go from being a slightly insecure, shy kind of a person offstage, to this super-confident, motivated, entity onstage.
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Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
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I can tell you that I am not self-destructive. I'm not a person who wants to die. I'm a person who has life, who wants to live. And I always have. And I wouldn't mistake it for anything else other than that.
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I'm not an upfront person. Being upfront is not my forte. I'm quite happy to stay in the back there with the drums, where I belong.
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It is not a waste to write beautiful prose or poetry for one person's eyes alone!
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You will not be the same person coming out of a relationship as you were going into it.
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The third person narrator, instead of being omniscient, is like a constantly running surveillance tape.
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If you look around the room, and you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
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Biography is history seen through the prism of a person.
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That was one of my most surprising discoveries when I dug into the history of average-ism: When you actually get the data, it rarely captures anyone. Which then begs the question, why are we using this as a reference standard for human beings?
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The Age of Average gave us a lot. Take clothing: We've all benefited remarkably from large, medium and small sizes making things affordable and available, but when it really counts - the wedding gown and the pressurized fighter pilot suit - it's bespoke all the way.
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I respect the Stones but their songs are a pile of crap. As for U2, they don’t say a lot or seem like normal persons.
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It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.
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Sometimes, the wicked will tell us things just to confuse us–to haunt our thoughts long after we've faced them.
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If I were pretentious I would say that I'm not an average person. But really, I know how that is.
