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Karl Lagerfeld

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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Amateurs Hate People Unprofessional
I’m a working-class person, working with class.
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Class Person Work
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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Give List Need Nice Say Someone Thank Thing Wastebasket
I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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Born Hand Lot Pencil Sketch
Keep the best, forget the rest.
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Best Forget Keep Rest
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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Ago Ask Child Country Homosexually Hundred Minded Mother Open Year
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.
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Cheap Cloth Everyone Inexpensive Look never Rich Today Use Word
When you hear designers complaining about the challenge of their profession, you have to say: don’t get carried away-it’s only dresses.
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Carried Challenge Complan Designer Dress Only Profession Say
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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Best Book Freshly Print Smell World
I don’t like standard beauty – there is no beauty without strangeness.
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Beauty Like Standard Strangers Without
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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Bother Conversation Correct End Everything Other People Please Politically
Don’t dress to kill, dress to survive.
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Dress Kill Survive
The flat shoe makes the woman equal of men. When they have high [shoes], they play a part like a geisha, and they can’t be expected to be taken that seriously.
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Equal Expect Flat Geisha High Make Men Play Serious Shoe Taken Woman
Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
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Control Diet Game Health Lose Only Win
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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Anymore Buy Car Country Design Dream Forgotten Matter Reason Sell Today
To reinvent a newly impeccable you in the most modern of outfits, don’t skip on makeup and be sure to have flawless skin and hair. That will have more impact than expensive clothes.
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Flawless Hair Impeccable Makeup Modern Most Outfit Reinvent Skin Sure

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