Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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When you're doing a deal with someone in the southern Sahara, it's a very different way of doing business than in London. You can't sign them in the usual way because they'd end up getting ripped off, which would defeat the object of setting up a label like this.
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My father was the proprietor of a music shop on Forty-third Street, where many of the finest performers and musicians of the day would come to shop. He knew the classical repertoire inside out.
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When I first started out, I was a bad actor.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I had the good fortune of having a happy, closely knit family.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I have super-supercurly hair, and it's a constant struggle.
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I consider The O.C. as my college. It was four years and I made friends who I'll have forever.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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In the late '70s, I was falling into the middle lane. I was way too country to be rock, and way too rock to be a country act.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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My deceased grandmother on my mom's side was a real fairy godmother, who lived to be 102 and who I always feel is looking after me.
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I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil.
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Yet I think the demon's target is not the possessed; it is us . . . the observers . . . every person in this house. And I think---I think the point is to make us despair; to reject our own humanity, Damien: to see ourselves as ultimately bestial; as ultimately vile and putrescent; without dignity; ugly; unworthy.
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It's the familiar love – hate syndrome of seduction: "I don't really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it."
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I think that it's a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
