Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

Karl Lagerfeld

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• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Matter
  • Interest
  • Opinions

• I was rubbish at school.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • School
  • Rubbish

• When you speak of role models, when we talk to our kids, everybody is a role model, everyone, just as you look at a Michael Jordan to be the terrific athlete he is.

  

  Walter Payton
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Speak

• People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Up
  • Day

• In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Up
  • Want

• I was pretty happy with how my career had gone, mainly because of the enormous freedom I've had to write what I've wanted to write. I had a very clear picture of who I was as a writer.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
  • Happy
  • Pretty
  • Career

• Working on 'Drive', a lot of fun. This is Tim Minear whom I've worked with before on 'Firefly' of course. He called me up and said, 'I've got a part for you that you will love,' and I love Tim's writing. I love his stories. I love his characters, his dialogue. He has a knack for reveals and he has a knack for moments.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Love

• Because in big and diverse societies like ours, progress ultimately depends on something more basic, and that is how we see each other. And we know from experience what makes nations strong. And Neha I think did a great job of describing the essence of what’s important here. We are strongest when we see the inherent dignity in every human being.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Great
  • Important
  • Job

• What’s our excuse today for not voting? How do we so casually discard the right for which so many fought? How do we so fully give away our power, our voice, in shaping America’s future? Why are we pointing to somebody else when we could take the time just to go to the polling places? We give away our power.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Why
  • Power

• I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Past
  • Lies
  • Excuses

• The Russians haven't been to the moon. You know why? Because they're space pussies... You really want to impress us? Bring back our fuckin' FLAG, asshole! Show us some moon rocks, or kiss this.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Why
  • Space
  • Moon

• Being as we know it, the world as we come upon it, stands before us as otherness, remoteness. For all our efforts to exploit or comprehend it, it remains evasive, mysteriously immune. Being is unbelievable.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • World

• Since only an individual man can possess rights, the expression 'individual rights' is a redundancy (which one has to use for purposes of clarification in today’s intellectual chaos). But the expression 'collective rights' is a contradiction in terms.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Today
  • Chaos

• I am not interested in illustrating my time. A man’s 'time' limits him; it does not truly liberate him. Our age – it is of science – of mechanism – of power and death. I see no point in adding to its mammoth arrogance the compliment of graphic homage.

  

  Clyfford Still
  • Time
  • Power
  • Age

• If I could live in one city and do every single thing I do there, I would choose Venice. You can't turn your head without seeing something amazing.

  

  Nile Rodgers Chic
  • Live
  • City
  • Single

• It's not like I'm anti-China. I just think it's ridiculous that we allow them to do what they're doing to this country, with the manipulation of the currency, that you write about and understand, and all of the other things that they do.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Manipulation

• You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.

  

  Albert Brooks
  • Time
  • Great

• One of my heroes growing up was Jackie Robinson. My mom, an ardent baseball fan from whom I got my love of the game, had an old baseball card of his from the 1950s and told us his amazing story of courage in integrating baseball.

  

  Jared Polis
  • Up
  • Game
  • Growing

• Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls. Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. [...] Then it was as if One voice sounded. One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing; now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.

  

  Plotinus
  • Reality
  • Intelligence
  • Entire

• I leave it up to the government to make good decisions for Americans.

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Up
  • Good
  • Government

• When I was playing for the reserves, if you got a call-up you got a straight £30. I'd never been paid for football!

  

  Jamie Vardy
  • Up
  • Football

• I don't want my kids to be like me, I don't want my daughter to date a guy like me. You know, for a guy like me success is to take care of my children to take care of their life and make 'em cushioned. I don't want them to be around people like me. You know, success for me would be that they never have the opportunity of being in the presence of someone like me.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Kids
  • Opportunity
  • Care

• We're always going to have prejudices ... I don't think we can change society. You can only change individual by individual. And you can change yourself.

  

  Esmeralda Santiago
  • Society
  • Change
  • Prejudices

• Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld