I’m never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that’s the secret to doing things well.
KARL LAGERFELDWhen I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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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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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.
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I sleep seven hours. If I go to bed at two, I wake up at nine. If I go to bed at midnight, I wake up at seven. I don’t wake up before – the house can fall apart, but I sleep for seven hours.
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The purpose of life is life.
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Sunglasses are like eye shadow: They make everything look younger and pretty
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
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Those social networks, there’s something sad about them. Is it because they don’t have enough knowledge about friends and people? I don’t understand it. It’s like a talkative mirror where people talk to themselves. And what I hate most in life is selfies.
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Keep the best, forget the rest.
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When I was 14, I wanted to smoke because my mother smoked like mad. I wanted to smoke to look grown-up. But my mother said: ‘You shouldn’t smoke. Your hands are not that beautiful and that shows when you smoke.
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Be politically correct, but please don’t bother other people with conversation about being politically correct, because that’s the end of everything. You want to create boredom? Be politically correct in your conversation.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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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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During the golden age of movie stars, there were plenty of actresses who were deemed unattractive at the start of their careers, but struggled and finally appeared more beautiful and more iconic. Sometimes that idea of being truly iconic has something to do with not necessarily being beautiful and thus trying harder.
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