Books are a hard-bound drug with no danger of an overdose. I am the happy victim of books.
KARL LAGERFELDWhat i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
More Karl Lagerfeld Quotes
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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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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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I don’t know what “normal” means, anyway.
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I don’t want to do anything over again, ever again. I want only to do what I haven’t done. There’s no “again.” There’s only the future. I hate the past – especially my own past.
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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.
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Seduction is, first and foremost, an art form. And seduction should not always be treated as a wild celebration. In fact, it’s more of an evocation of what you do. It’s more an evocation of seduction.
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What i like about photographs is that they capture a moment that’s gone forever, impossible to reproduce.
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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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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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My hair is not really white; it’s kind of grayish, and I don’t like the color. So I make it totally white with Klorane dry shampoo. That is the best thing to do because my hair is always clean.
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The middle has not enough class that I think about the middle class.
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Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Stuff your brain with knowledge.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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I like to reinvent myself – it’s part of my job.
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Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.
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A respectable appearance is sufficient to make people more interested in your soul
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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I don’t like sleeping with people I really love. I don’t want to sleep with them because sex cannot last, but affection can last forever.
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I only know how to play one role: me.
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I think tattoos are horrible. It’s like living in a Pucci dress full-time.
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Elegance is a physical quality. If a woman doesn’t have it naked, she’ll never it clothed.
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I’m open to everything. When you start to criticize the times you live in, your time is over.
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When people talk about the good old days, I say to people, ‘It’s not the days that are old, it’s you that’s old.’ I hate the good old days. What is important is that today is good.
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