The French say you get hungry when you’re eating, and I get inspired when I’m working. It’s my engine.
KARL LAGERFELDForgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
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The thing at the moment is Adele. She is a little too fat, but she has a beautiful face and a divine voice.
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If someone gives me a to-do list, I say ‘thank you, this is nice.’ One needs things to throw in the wastebasket.
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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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What is the worst is a fashion designer who talks all the time of his or her creativity, what they are, how they evolved. Just do it and shut up.
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When people want to be liked for what they did, they should stop.
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What I love best in life is new starts.
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Luxury is the income tax of vanity. But it is so pleasant.
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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 hate amateurs. I hate unprofessional people. There are enough people who can do jobs decently that there’s no reason that people who cannot do them decently [should] pretend to be great at it.
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I think that it’s a crime to say you are bored when time is so precious and there are so many things to do in life: read, learn, watch.
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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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Don’t wear what you question, wear what you think is right for you.
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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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Guilty feelings about clothes are totally unnecessary. A lot of people earn their living by making clothes, so you should never feel bad.
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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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If you want respect for your past, it means that you have a problem with your present and even more with your future.
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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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Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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Chic is a kind of mayonnaise, either it tastes, or it doesn’t.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
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The reason American cars don’t sell anymore is that they have forgotten how to design the American Dream. What does it matter if you buy a car today or six months from now, because cars are not beautiful. That’s why the American auto industry is in trouble: no design, no desire.
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Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people… the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life… they are mean and they want to kill you.
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Change is the healthiest way to survive.
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