Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.
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The people who control the condition in which we live have no reason to think beyond more than the next five or 10 years.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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The thing that I have to stay away from is sweets. I have a horrible sweet tooth. It's just the worst.
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At times, we need to stop and rethink everything. Our entire history is made up of people who were sure they knew the truth yet forgot that the truth has an annoying tendency to change on occasion without us noticing it.
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If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.
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I'm addicted to food, so if you bring the cake and stuff to my house, I might walk by and take a swipe of icing and keep it moving. So what happens is I try to not keep it around.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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For me, art is always a kind of theater. When I started the spot paintings, I made them as an endless series. But I was never serious about it being an endless series. It was just an implied endless series. The theater means you just have to make it look good for that moment in the spotlight.
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Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
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I am myself of a mixed background.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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A laugh costs too much when bought at the expense of virtue.
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I eat the same foods almost every day. I have my favorites like Filipino beef broth, chicken soup with lots and lots of rice.
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My dad was a huge Bob Dylan fan, so we listened to his music, Cat Stevens, Simon & Garfunkel, and all that kind of stuff.
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I repent daily my sins, my faults, and my shortcomings.
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How can a country like Korea, which was not fully prepared for the upcoming era, be as rich as Germany now?
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I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and in a funny way at peace, an observer who is aware of time's chariot, aware that some metamorphosis has occurred.
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The kingdom of God is like a mustard seed, beginning as the smallest of seeds but growing until the birds of the air make their nests therein. There are old worlds and new ones. There are earthy worlds and cyber worlds. But one truth remains the same now and forever, that Jesus rules them all.
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When I first came to do shows in Vegas, I followed the usual entertainer's syndrome - I played craps and lost.
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I have one instinct stronger than any other thing in life, and that is the instinct for survival.
