Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
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People who meet me think of Jill and transfer her strong qualities to me.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.
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I like to see myself as a bridge builder, that is me building bridges between people, between races, between cultures, between politics, trying to find common ground.
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Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
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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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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I get very bored easily. I'm a child of the Internet or whatever; I want more and more of new and interesting things.
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God blessed me with two unbelievable parents, and I am just like both of them. I have the smile and charisma of my mother and the big heart of my mom, because she wants to save the world and help the world, so I am just like her.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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We had a relationship that lasted 44 years. Herbert and I lived together 10 years before we were married. He always gave me a little heart for whatever anniversary.
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I have been the last space marine between earth and an alien invasion. I really just don't need to go there anymore.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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I wholeheartedly rejected anything remotely feminine but was not enthusiastic about anything masculine, either. I did not want to cook and have babies, and I did not want to be an engineer or a baseball player or a soldier or a politician or any of the myriad careers open mostly or solely to men. I wanted to be a poet.
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The feat of surviving is directly related to the capacity of the survivor.
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Life in New York is one of succumbing to a tidal wave of control and direction, of numbing oneself to emotion.
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... Love is heaven and claims its own.
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When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
