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I don’t care if people I admire criticize me because their opinion is valuable to me.

Karl Lagerfeld

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything – not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion.
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Child Conversation Everything Growm Hate Intelectual Intellectual Like Talk Up Want
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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Alone Battery Claim Creative Job People Recharge
Buy only because something excites you, not just for the simple act of shopping.
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Excite Just Shopping Simple Something
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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Creativity Designer Evolve Fashion Shut Talk Time Worst
The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
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Best Book Freshly Print Smell World
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.
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Beauties Boy Celebrity Country Girl Kind Like Nice Person Right Romantic Silhouette Woman
I design like I breathe. You don’t ask to breathe. It just happens
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Ask Breathe Design Happen Just Like
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 all self-taught. I never had a teacher. Even for English, and French, and German, I hardly went to school.
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English Hardly Language never School Self Taught Teacher Went
I am a black diamond, unfaceted. Black diamonds are rare, hard to cut, and therefore uncommercial.
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Black Cut Diamond Hard Rare Uncommercial Unfaced
These are fat mummies sitting with their bags of crisps in front of the television, saying that thin models are ugly. Fashion is about dreams and illusions, and no one wants to see round women.
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Bag Crisp Fat Front Model Mummies Say Sit Televiosn Ugly
Bears are very nice, as long as you are nice to them.
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Bear Long Nice Them Very
I do my job like I breathe — so if I can’t breathe I’m in trouble.
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Breathe Do Job Trouble
A sense of humour and a little lack of respect: That’s what you need to make a legend survive.
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Humour Lack Legend Little Make Need Respect Sense Survive
Fashion is a language that creates itself in clothes to interpret reality.
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Clothes Create Fashion Interpret Itself Language Reality
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

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