Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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We have to set our own agenda, we have to set our own standards, we have to be very strong about what we want, we have to be very strong about our passion and if it's not right for you, you shouldn't do it just because you're advised by so-called geniuses.
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The cadence of life is slower in North Korea.
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Suddenly you're surrounded by strangers who want something from you. The thing is, they don't know what they want, and you don't know what they want, unless it's an autograph, and you just sort of stand there grinning at one another.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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I think we all have our own personality, unique and distinctive, and at the same time, I think that our own unique and distinctive personality blends with the wind, with the footsteps in the street, with the noises around the corner, and with the silence of memory, which is the great producer of ghosts.
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In 1953, Mom and Dad, living in Toronto, discovered, to their shock, that Mom was expecting. I was born in June 1954. My parents, thrilled, showered me with love.
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The Nobel Prize has given me, for the first time in my life, the feeling that my literature could be appreciated on an international level.
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To supply people for ages in camps makes no sense... you have to rebuild that cabana that they rent out to tourists on the weekend. They need help getting their fields repaired and their boats repaired.
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I never say too much about that in public interviews, because it disappoints the public to tell them you're not that crazy about a property you did that possibly they liked.
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I like it when somebody tells me a story, and I actually really feel that that's becoming like a lost art in American cinema.
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The '90s are really the 'Sex and the City' woman, and I think, right now, the new contemporary woman is the 'Lipstick Jungle' woman.
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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When I paint, some things come out, and I don't know. Maybe it's because I have such talent as a painter.
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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end.
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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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I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.
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The activities that went on at Camp King between 1946 and the late 1950s have never been fully accounted for by either the Department of Defense or the CIA.
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First of all, magicians practice a lot. It requires a lot of discipline. Second, you can't be afraid to be a leader, to go onstage, and you learn to have presence. You need to be able to visualize and connect and create. Most important, you learn to think outside the box.
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Ironically, style doesn't come even closely related to fashion. It's got nothing to do [with clothes].
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The most valuable lessons in life cannot be taught, they must be experienced.
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A man has to know his limitations.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
