Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I remember the moon landings, and Apollo was the paradigm by which all progress was measured at that time. And I knew that creating a true space-faring civilization was both possible and practical. What I failed to realize was that the effort would fail due to bureaucratic inertia and political apathy.
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We have 200,000 kids a year who drop out of the French school system and have no hope. They become a drag on society.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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My first workshop was in Rome, and that was the start of House of Waris. In a little magical atelier, a goldsmith, his apprentice, his stone setter - and that was where it began.
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Disrespect toward Jesus, as we have seen all too often in our society, is very offensive to Muslims.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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But I think we need the international market.
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In life go straight and turn right.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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To work without attachment is to work without the expectation of reward or fear of any punishment in this world or the next. Work so done is a means to the end, and God is the end.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man's arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
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If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down.
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I can say 'reduce your stress level' until I'm blue in the face.
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You know that place between sleep and awake? The place where you still remember dreaming? That's where I'll always love you... Peter Pan. That's where I'll be waiting.
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I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.
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There are people who are always, I think, going to remain people of the book, to use another author's title, but people of the book, who really must be around.
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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
