Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
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The gift of sobriety is clarity and a sense of connection - and travel only enhances that.
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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After 2012, all of the Washington political consultants and all the mainstream media came to Republicans and said, 'You've got to do better with Hispanics, and the way to do better with Hispanics is to embrace amnesty.' And, look, a lot of Republicans in Washington were scared.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Belgian chocolate is my weakness. I like over 72 percent cacao, which shows you how much of a dark chocolate snob I am.
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I'm getting married because I'm in love with a girl and want to spend my life with her. You can't live your life doing what other people want you to or you'll be miserable. At some point you just have to be yourself.
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You can tell the difference between songs that were created in a garage and songs that were created in the studio.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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I know career motivation and encouragement up the ladder of success have their place in the world. But I don't want them anywhere near my spirituality.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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Don't be afraid to convince yourself that your business is incredible, but don't expect others to be convinced without solid data to back it up. Ideas can be a worth a lot, but they are usually not. Execution is everything.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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A lot happens in 20 years.
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I consider myself sexy. But the sexy image doesn't bother me, and I don't think it detracts from my singing.
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I'm all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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That's my only active wish. I think if I sang like Don Henley, this would be a lot more agreeable business.
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Of course, there can be serious injustices within free societies.
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People ask about dictators, 'Why?' But dictators themselves ask, 'Why not?'
Garry Kasparov -
When I was a child I asked my mother what homosexuality was about and she said - and this was 100 years ago in Germany and she was very open-minded - 'It's like hair color. It's nothing. Some people are blond and some people have dark hair. It's not a subject.' This was a very healthy attitude.
