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 an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.
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Well, first of all, we've got to get away from being offended by the truth. We've seen a 41 percent increase in food stamp recipients across the United States of America since President Obama was sworn in in January 2009. That has nothing to do with black, white, Hispanic or whatever. It's a fact, and we need to, you know, deal with that.
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Art is man's distinctly human way of fighting death.
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The prayer does call for serious, serious punishment on people. But I didn't call for that, God did.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
