Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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If I read too much or know too much it's not because I want to talk about it, it's only because it's interesting for me.
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I hate the word 'cheap'. People are cheap. Clothing is either expensive or inexpensive.
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I'm always busy. You know, the more I do, the more ideas I have—that's the funny thing. The brain is a muscle, and I'm a kind of body builder.
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When I was a child, my mother always told me that you could wake up in the middle of the night and be deathly sick, so you always have to be impeccable. I laugh about it now, but I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.
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As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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I had an interview once with some German journalist - some horrible, ugly woman. It was in the early days after the communists - maybe a week after - and she wore a yellow sweater that was kind of see-through. She had huge tits and a huge black bra, and she said to me, "It's impolite; remove your glasses." I said, "Do I ask you to remove your bra?"
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For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them.
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If I could be reincarnated as a fashion accessory, it would be a shopping bag.
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Some models who aren't the most beautiful end up becoming the greatest of all time.
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Black, like white, is the best color!
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I lost 200lb to wear suits by Hedi Slimane
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I have no scene, I go everywhere, I adapt.
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I have no idea of the future -- never, ever. That's what I like about fashion. It's paradise now.
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The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
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The most important piece in the house is the garbage can.
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I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow.
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We live in the world of images, but we also live in the world of the Internet, of zapping and where people move. You can make little videos on your phone. I love very composed images, but the idea of moving pictures with a story, with a plot is quite interesting, too.
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Absurdity and anti—absurdity are the two poles of creative energy.
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I don't like to act because my life is a pantomime anyway.
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I like imagination -- and the way I think things could be, had been, or should be -- better than reality.
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I like newspapers. Maybe the iPad is very modern and everything, and I'm not against it, but I like the physical contact. And the physical contact of metal and glass is not as sensuous as paper.
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I've only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They're all I need, and the rest I can do without.