Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.
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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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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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I've survived quite a few generations. That's because I never lost my enthusiasm. I wake up every morning like on Christmas Day, waiting for the gifts.
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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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Black-and-white always looks modern, whatever that word means.
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My childhood was endless - from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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I prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.
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For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
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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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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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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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Doing collections, doing fashion is like a non-stop dialogue.
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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 don't like sleeping with people I really love. I don't want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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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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My hair is not really white; it's kind of grayish, and I don't like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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I also do political cartoons, but a lot of them must stay, as they say, under the coat. But they are very fun to do, and in France, we have a good subject at the moment.
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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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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes - it's about all kinds of change
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I can no longer walk in the street. That's over.