Trendy is the last stage before tacky.
KARL LAGERFELDBe 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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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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There’s something boring about people who have to go to an office for a living…
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I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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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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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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Personality begins where comparison ends.
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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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I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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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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I’m born with a pencil in my hand. I did lots of sketching.
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I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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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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Sometimes it’s easy to have ideas, but somebody has to find a way to do it. Often those responsible for finding a way don’t have the idea.
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Its all about taste.If you are cheap, nothing helps
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Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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You cannot fake chic but you can be chic and fake fur
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Fashion is the healthiest motivation for losing weight.
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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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My only ambition in life . . . is to wear size 28 jeans.
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Think pink, but don’t wear it.
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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 like girls to be wild but at the same time beautifully brought up and very funny.
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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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Work is making a living out of being bored.
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What I hate is nasty, ugly people.
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