Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I'm a little bit awkward on Twitter; like, I'm never really sure what to say.
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It's hard to make a good movie in four weeks. It's hard. I've done it, but it's not easy.
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Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I like to spoof the original Gothic classics, so there is also good dose of comedy in the 'Parasol Protectorate' - giggling readers are good.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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Being enlightened is just being aware. It's just being aware of something that you weren't aware before.
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We, Will Ferrell and I, were approached by Sequoia, which is a big financing firm up in Palo Alto; they do a lot of Internet stuff, and they came to us and said they had an idea for a comedy site, and Will and I were sorta like, 'Yeah, we don't know. It's the Internet, we've seen it come and go.'
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.
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Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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The senior members of the royal family work very hard and I don't think people quite realise that.
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No one person is an island.
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You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
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Mortality applies to every aspect of life. The fear of death is the driving fear of life.
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Patrick Demarchelier was the one who got me my first 'Vogue' cover. It was French 'Vogue' – I think in '87 or '88. I think I was the first black model to be on the cover of French Vogue, which was shocking to me because when I asked them about it, they were like, 'Oh, no. We've never had that before.'
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I've never been in jeopardy, but being an actor is a pretty shady place to be because you never know where your next job is.
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I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!
