Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.
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Push your luck. If you see a pretty girl in a bar, say something.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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In many ways, our campaign this year will be the same as last time: We're still going to focus on fixing up basics and cleaning up ethics at City Hall.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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If I can save 25 billion dollars in terms of reduction of import, I will be adding one percent to the GDP. By conserving the oil energy by the people, the GDP will become 5.5 percent, and this will change the economy of the country.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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Education - much like law or medicine - should be a profession governed by professionals. Unfortunately, too many policies, even those that are well-intentioned, come from the top, leaving out those closest to the classroom, who have the greatest insight into how to provide a high-quality education for all students.
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I'm looking for people who are at the cutting edge of what they do, who think out-of-the-box. Even if their work is something common today, it might have been absolutely new when they started out, so we'd like to hear of their beginnings.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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John Sayles is good. He's like a good thoroughbred owner - he leaves the trainers alone.
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Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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I had a long period of writing what I think of as 'save the world' novels. 'Fledgling' was a chance to play.
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I am actually talking about possibly adapting 'The Boys,' by Garth Ennis, which would not be a comedy, but an action movie with comedy elements to it.
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We have to be serious and consistent if we believe the European Union makes sense. I believe it makes sense.
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In midlife, we're as dumb as we get.
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It usually starts with the director and any other creatives who may be involved at the start. It's a collaboration. I bring what I have naturally and, hopefully, what they cast me for, and then we start playing and tweaking until we have what they feel's right. It helps to have some artwork to inspire me, but I don't always get that luxury.
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If historians are not skeptical, they are nothing.
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Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.
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Foreigners don't want to invest any more in France - and this is not working.
