Karl Lagerfeld Quotes

Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

Karl Lagerfeld

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• Vanity
• Income
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• When I first started writing songs, I never intended on singing. I didn't really consider myself a singer at all. I was just kind of recording the demo vocals as a holding place until someone else came and sang.

  

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• Fitness, defending, the mental stuff - those were all weaknesses of mine. And I turned those into strengths.

  

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• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

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• We're a nation of immigrants.

  

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• My biggest thing has always been privacy. With an interview such as this where the questions are about me, I struggle to express myself. I have an immediate answer in my head of what I'd say, but sometimes I feel that it would be too honest. So these wheels of censorship start going around my head.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
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• When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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• After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.

  

  Daniel Barber
  • Want
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• That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Training
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• The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Love
  • Religion
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• If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • Truth
  • True
  • Care

• Cloture is simply cutting off debate.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Cutting
  • Debate
  • Off

• The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

  

  Abdoulaye Wade
  • Education
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• I'm less concerned about whether being a good corporate citizen burnishes a company's reputation. That's just an added benefit. I believe it's a responsibility, and there is no negotiating on responsibilities.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Responsibility

• In order to help small businesses gain access to the credit and capital they need to run their business successfully, Congress must adopt policies that support functional capital markets without imposing undue restrictions on providers of debt and equity capital.

  

  Sam Graves
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• An ethical action, like an unethical action, is usually analyzed by politicians purely in pragmatic terms.

  

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  • Action
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• Before marriage, many couples are very much like people rushing to catch an airplane; once aboard, they turn into passengers. They just sit there.

  

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  • People
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  • Airplane

• The Ideas of primary Qualities of Bodies, are Resemblances of them, and their Patterns do really exist in the Bodies themselves; but the Ideas, produced in us by these Secondary Qualities, have no resemblance of them at all. There is nothing like our Ideas, existing in the Bodies themselves. They are in Bodies, we denominate from them, only a Power to produce those Sensations in us: And what is Sweet, Blue or Warm in Idea, is but the certain Bulk, Figure, and Motion of the insensible parts in the Bodies themselves, which we call so.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Sweet
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  • Bodies

• They're like ''You're an alcoholic.'' I go ''No, I'm not.'' and then-apparently that's what alcoholics say too, you know?

  

  Norm MacDonald
  • Alcoholic

• I had an amazing childhood.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Amazing
  • Childhood
  • Had

• My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.

  

  Ram Kapoor
  • Up
  • Money
  • Growing

• I'm just trying to get used to living on a fixed income. Now, it's going to get unfixed.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Trying
  • Used
  • Income

• Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Luxury
  • Vanity
  • Income