Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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The gay community is very fickle. And I know because I'm part of it and I see it every day.
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I think if we understand better the impact of war on women and children, we might be more careful about the wars we start.
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I inherited some Chanel pieces from my mother. I've worn Prada - absolutely. Wonderful designers are inspiring. I also love designers not known. I love a lot of vintage pieces. I am pretty minimal, pretty classic.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
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People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
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I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don't know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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You just have to work super hard, and if you have a passion, that's the most beautiful thing in life, and you just have to bust out and do it, baby!
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Why is it we never get our bad medicine in small doses?
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new.
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I had fun while I did it, and I left it all out there on the field. I'm tapped out.
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A source of conflict for women everywhere is the pull between reproduction and production. Women worldwide have difficulty in balancing their dual roles as caregivers and providers.
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My father was a carpenter, a very good carpenter. He also worked for the Jones boys. They were not family members, we weren't related at all. They started the policy racket in Chicago, and they had the five and dime store.
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People called me 'Iman the black model'. In my country, we're all black, so nobody called somebody else black. It was foreign to my ears.
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Certain aspects of my personality are always going to come out on-screen. I guess that's just me – if they say I'm quirky, I'm quirky. It's better than being boring.
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Mainly, when I go see a show, unfortunately it's more industrial espionage than it is going to actually enjoy a show.
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To me, 'Show Boat' was the first American musical, the first to have the real texture of this country.
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We think we need to create ourselves, always doing a paste-up job on our personalities. That is because we're trying to be special rather than real. We're pathetically trying to conform with all the other people trying to do the same.
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If our nation wants to reduce global warming, air pollution and energy instability, we should invest only in the best energy options. Nuclear energy isn't one of them.
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Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
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Foremost is the principle that the purpose of consumer research is to understand the customer's needs and wishes, and thus design product and service that will provide better living for him in the future. A second principle is that no one can guess the future loss of business from a dissatisfied customer...
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I design like I breathe. You don't ask to breathe. It just happens
