Work is making a living out of being bored.
KARL LAGERFELD
KARL LAGERFELD
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EXTREME LUXURY ISN’T THE MOST BLING-BLING, IT’S EXTREME REFINEMENT, WHICH IS COUTURE AT ITS FINEST.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I like the idea of craziness with discipline.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I was never a feminist because I was never ugly enough for that.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Fashion designers are dictators of taste.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Never use the word “cheap”. Today everybody can look chic in inexpensive clothes (the rich buy them too). There is good clothing design on every level today. You can be the chicest thing in the world in a T-shirt and jeans – it’s up to you.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I have no personality, or I have three, depending on how you look at it.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m not an employee who goes to the office every morning at the same time. Then, vacations are needed.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m a working-class person, working with class.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m very much down to earth, just not this earth.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Alan AldaAlan Alda When work is not going well, it’s useful to remember that our identities stretch beyond what is on the business card, that we were people long before we became workers – and will continue to be human once we have put our tools down forever.
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton Must being in love always mean being in pain?
Alain de BottonAlain de Botton When I was doing ‘Scarface,’ I remember being in love at that time. One of the few times in my life. And I was so glad it was at that time.
Al PacinoAl Pacino I’m being accused of being a murderer! I’M being ACCUSED of being a molester!
Al SnowAl Snow My movies are always being played on television, I’m very well known and all that stuff.
Al PacinoAl Pacino In fact, so as not to succumb to an obscurantist theory of creation ex nihilo, we must accept that an event is nothing but a part of a given situation, nothing but a fragment of being.
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