Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I don't like to make a big splash anyway.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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People do bad things in their lives. And those sort of things are forgivable. That's half the point of having confession in church - you need to be able to fess up to what you've done.
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You have to keep listening and thinking and being critical and self-critical. Remember General Nivelle, in the First World War, at Verdun? He said he had the solution and then destroyed the French Army until it mutinied.
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I feel a big obligation to the audience, almost in a moral sense, to say something useful. If I'm going to spend a year of my life on these things, I want something that I feel that strongly about.
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The world gets very small after a while, if you stick around long enough.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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It's creepy to see fan sites about me.
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What I love about the East End is that there's a great perseverance, determination and courage. What I dislike about it is that there is sometimes a celebration of ignorance.
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Unrest of spirit is a mark of life.
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A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best; but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.
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My material is as new as anything on the dinner table. What difference does it make if I'm 70 or if I'm 20? The audience knows they aren't getting any old stories from me.
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You American people worry too much about the China economy. Every time you think China is a problem, we get better, but when you have a high expectation for China, China is always a problem.
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I've been a huge fan of virtually every incarnation and spin-off of the 'Star Trek' franchise (don't get me started on 'Voyager,' though), but there's something about the purity of the original series that really appeals to me.
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It's not my job to judge or assess. I think single, black, white, married - people are doing the best they can.
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I was in awe of previous black liberation struggle leaders - Sojourner Truth, Ida B. Wells. I wanted to be part of something bigger than myself. Black Lives Matter has been that.
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We knew it was going to be a market, and we knew it was a food market. Well, what kind of food market? It's kind of natural foods, kind of organic foods. So, we eventually settled on Whole Foods Market.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
