Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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You have to like the present; if not your life becomes secondhand, if you think it was better before. Or that it will be better in the future.
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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.
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I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.
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No, I'm not a French designer either. I'm from nowhere. I'm a European, old European is all I am.
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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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I never had to learn English, French and German because I was brought up as all three languages. I had a private French teacher before I even went to school. That helped a lot.
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If I was a woman in Russia, I would be a lesbian, as the men are very ugly. There are a few handsome ones, like Naomi Campbell's boyfriend, but there you see the most beautiful women and the most horrible men.
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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
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What I do Coco would have hated. The label has an image and it's up to me to update it. I do what she never did. I had to find my mark. I had to go from what Chanel was to what it should be, could be, what it had been to something else.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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Yes, and I can sit down on a white piece of paper and work because I don't believe too much into inspiration, only I'm waiting for inspiration, work and then inspiration may come. It's a little too easy to say that.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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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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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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The secret to modeling is not being perfect. What one needs is a face that people can identify in a second. You have to be given what’s needed by nature, and what’s needed is to bring something new.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.
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I don't speak Spanish, I speak a little of Italian but no Spanish.