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Karl Lagerfeld146 quotes“I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.”
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Dieting is the only game where you win when you lose!
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Nothing makes you look older than attempting to look young.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld 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.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Life should be larger than life. Size is important to escape normalization.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld 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.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I’m not a tourist.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld 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.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Kate Middleton has a nice silhouette and she is the right girl for that boy. I like that kind of woman, I like romantic beauties. On the other hand, her sister struggles. I don’t like the sister’s face. She should only show her back.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Forgiveness is too easy. I can forget by indifference, but not forgive. I prefer revenge.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I’m not a marketing person. I don’t ask myself questions. I go by instinct.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Like poetry, fashion does not state anything. It merely suggests.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld 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.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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Getting so deep in the process of creating the life I want for myself, so I’m turning out anything/ anyone that doesn’t align with my vision.
Dau VoireDau Voire I am finding the courage to breathe as I am.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign Sadness that is caused by the absence of love is deadly for the heart.
Laura ChouetteLaura Chouette Always find a reason to love.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta You are healing yourself with poetry what could be more beautiful than that?
Aurora RaineAurora Raine Not everyone takes every opportunity that comes their way because it takes a lot of work.
Edgar DoucetEdgar Doucet I could never love her, the fear of losing would be too strong.
AtticusAtticus The lack of influence or power is more dangerous than worrying about things being reduced to nothingness.
Mwanandeke KindemboMwanandeke Kindembo
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As a kitten does what all other kittens do, so a child wants to do what other children do, with a wanting that is as powerful as it is mindless. Since we human beings have to learn what we do, we have to start out that way, but human mindfulness begins where that wish to be the same leaves off.
Ursula K. Le GuinUrsula K. Le Guin No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.
Timothy KellerTimothy Keller There are a lot of things that people go through, and maybe they don’t know how to get through it, and maybe you do, and if you have some sort of knowledge or power, share with the world.
Sabrina CarpenterSabrina Carpenter And anyway, the first three letters in the word diet should tell you what i want it to do.
Becca FitzpatrickBecca Fitzpatrick Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it.
William FaulknerWilliam Faulkner Resisting is worth doing.
Veronica RothVeronica Roth It’s great that in life you do something that you want to do because you like doing it and you’re not bored. I’m not bored at all. I’m even interested in lots of things, more so today than before.
Karl LagerfeldKarl Lagerfeld All we can do is go around telling the truth.
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