Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

Karl Lagerfeld

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• Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • World
  • Culture
  • Interesting

• If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Think
  • Honor
  • Most

• Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Always

• It is absolutely critical for competitiveness in the United States for us to really raise the bar in education, especially in math, in science, in technology.

  

  Safra A. Catz
  • Science
  • Education
  • Technology

• I was this kid who had been raised in New York, and now all of a sudden, my mother decided that she was a Jewish divorcee and therefore she should be living in Miami Beach.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • She
  • Mother
  • New York

• I've always considered myself to be fiercely patriotic. I love Britain - its history and the down-to-earth attitude people have.

  

  Gary Numan
  • People
  • Love
  • History

• I was an easygoing guy, and school was pretty much people trying to challenge me to a fight, y'know, saying, 'Rambo! Rocky!'

  

  Sage Stallone
  • People
  • Trying
  • School

• Since the dawn of recorded music, every generation has felt shocked by the musical tastes of the next.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Music
  • Generation
  • Dawn

• I was always more interested in story songs, things with a point of view... and things that informed me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
  • Me
  • Story
  • View

• I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • People
  • Know
  • Inside

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Challenge
  • Economy

• I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Family
  • Parents
  • Child

• When you make a movie, you really have to be clever and smart, find something new for the worldwide audience because you aren't making a movie for just France or Germany; it's for everyone in the world.

  

  Olivier Megaton
  • World
  • Movie
  • Smart

• I am the middle child with an older and younger brother.

  

  Eden Sher
  • Brother
  • Child

• I've never had a job. I've never needed to.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Job
  • Never
  • Needed

• If you hear me out, I believe you'll discover that what motivates me more than any other issue is the defense of everyone's rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Believe
  • Me
  • Rights

• There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Women
  • Eye
  • Media

• I know what I'm trying to say, so I'm always open to learning how to say it.

  

  Lynn Nottage
  • Trying
  • Learning

• Qian Xuesen, the father of the Chinese Space Program, studied in the United States, and he was a protégé of Theodore Von Carmen's at Cal Tech and helped start the jet propulsion laboratory there, and then he got caught up in the anti-communism wave and was accused of being a spy and was actually deported back to China where he built from nothing, their entire missile and space program. So, in a way, in a very real way, the United States in trying to protect so-called protect our secrets and throwing this guy out of the country, we helped seed and start the Chinese missile program.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Up
  • Country
  • Real

• I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

  

  Jamie Foxx
  • Funny

• Since having kids, I am more careful about saving rather than splurging. I used to spend all my money on trainers and high heels that I couldn't walk in.

  

  Jasmine Guinness
  • Money
  • Kids
  • High

• Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

  

  Rumi
  • Heart
  • Love
  • Sun

• Sometimes the idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Trying
  • Beautiful
  • Sometimes