Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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I said, God, the press and people, they just really hate me and I'm really trying. Geraldine Page said, Listen to this, Tab. If people don't like you, that's their bad taste.
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I was intentionally curbing the impulse to be funny and hiding the ability. I wrote any number of very serious attempts at poems, short stories, novels - horrible. At a certain point, I recognized that it was fun to write dialogue that had a degree of lightness and humor.
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My passion for giving is no different than yours. I give because it's in my heart to give. I give because I was taught to give at a very early age. This is how I developed my passion for giving.
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I've never been someone who needs a lot of takes or enjoys a lot of takes. I like the fast thing of it.
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As we continue to step up our investment in education, we must not sidestep our commitment to the principle of local control.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.
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Genius always finds itself a century too early.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America.
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We're writing a book together. She just finished one. Did you read it? Among the Porcupines?
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I never did feel any pressure in Jamaica. You just someone, not nobody big.
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I don't necessarily think that installation is the only way to go. It's just a label for certain kinds of arrangements.
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If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.
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I was in Barcelona working with Shakira, and it was an amazing experience. She's a great artist, and I learned a lot while working with her.
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There's room for role models who make mistakes.
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If you want to express yourself, it is difficult to be by yourself. You must have people around you who understand the same music. It is like being the chef d'orchestra. They need you, but you need them desperately.
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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and differences are the basis of all human knowledge.
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Memory exercised in a particular way is a natural gift of poetic genius. The poet above all else, is a person who never forgets certain sense impressions which he has experienced and which he can relive again as though with all their original freshness.
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Trouble results when the speed of growth exceeds the speed of nurturing human resources. To use the analogy of growth rings in a tree, when unusually rapid growth caused the rings to grow abnormally thick, the tree trunk weakens and is easily broken.
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The iPod is genius. I have 300.
