Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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My boy and I move. We have this game where if we dress in a particular item of clothing, we have to do a different movement. A hat means 20 jumps - that sort of thing. When I put a scarf on, my son has to drop down and do push-ups, immediately. He thinks it's really funny.
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I think mobility is very important, not only to discover opportunities elsewhere but at times, also to appreciate better what your home town has. Allahabad, for instance, has the feel of a small, tightly-knit community where everyone participates.
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It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.
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You know, Saint Augustine said our hearts are restless 'til they rest in thee. And I had a restlessness in my heart. Something just wasn't quite right.
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I can't give more than I have. It doesn't matter if I am the most beautiful person in the room. There is inevitably going to be somebody way shinier and more tan than my pasty self.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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Catholic schools in Indonesia routinely accept non-Catholic students, but exempt them from studying religion. Obama's school documents, though, wrongly list him as being Indonesian.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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Those edges and turns teach control and discipline, just like finger exercises on the piano.
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I am happy in Paris.
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I hear my songs being sung by females before I change them and make them into my voice.
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The good news was that Enterprise and the newly arrived Yorktown had attacked the Marshall and Gilbert islands. Those attacks had a great effect on morale.
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Sometimes his methods are questionable, and even his morals are questionable, but his intention is always to protect Sydney. So in that way I think he's a good parent.
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We have to sell the dream before we can sell the clothes
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When I watch a movie for the first few times I'm usually thinking about where I was in a given scene, who was next to me, what we were doing etc. But after I've gotten through all of this, when I'm really watching the film itself, then I get moved.
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It is inconceivable to me that a million or three million or half a million human beings will think and feel precisely the same way on any single subject.
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We cannot be sure of having something to live for unless we are willing to die for it.
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You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?
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Designers must be both conscious and unconscious at the same time. Clear thinking at the wrong moment can stifle talent.
