Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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My opinion can be completely different after a show.
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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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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 can no longer walk in the street. That's over.
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I'm not a marketing person. I don't ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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Clothes if they are not well cut, you can kill nobody. A building poorly built can kill people. It's a much more difficult work. I would not compare myself with that.
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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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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 prefer to be in a video than to play with it.
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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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No, I never thought I would like cats.
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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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Personally, I don't wear fur.
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I’m trying to think of the last time I had onions.
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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 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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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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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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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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My favorite kitchen was the Japanese and the Italian kitchen.
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My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.