Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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The higher your station, the less your liberty.
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Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I've never really done acting before, 'cause dancing was my first love. And then, I sort of fell into it from a talent competition and never really looked back.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I don't really care about gossip. I care about building great businesses.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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Governments take too long to get things done and there are far too many varied interests at stake. If you were starting a business today and needed a partner, you would never choose a large bureaucratic institution like the government.
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Unrequited affection is very painful for the lover, but it can have unexpected, creative consequences.
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For my parents' generation, the idea was not that marriage was about some kind of idealized, romantic love; it was a partnership. It's about creating family; it's about creating offspring. Indian culture is essentially much more of a 'we' culture. It's a communal culture where you do what's best for the community - you procreate.
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Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.
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The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.
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I have no tattoos that I regret - I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.
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If you are socially isolated, you are more vulnerable to stereotypes and myths; you won't have the opportunity to have conversations with someone who has a different social background than you.
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Welcome to Morganville.You'll never want to leave.And even if you do...well, you can't. Sorry about that.
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When I was 14 years old, I was talking about much more mature things because of the writers that I had at the time. My first album was tied into what the culture was at that moment, which was Jodeci, Al B. Sure, Puff, The Hitmen. I reaped the benefits of being part of Bad Boy's movement. That was my introduction.
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The small force that it takes to launch a boat into the stream should not be confused with the force of the stream that carries it along: but this confusion appears in nearly all biographies.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
