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Nas Rapper, Songwriter
Style

"I talk about life, and I make universal music with an American style - and that's what I do."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Style

"Reinvent new combinations of what you already own. Improvise. Become more creative. Not because you have to, but because you want to. Evolution is the secret for the next step."

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Karl Lagerfeld Fashion Designer, Photographer
Style

"I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern."

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Karl Kraus Playwright, Journalist
Style

"It is the style of idealism to console itself for the loss of something old with the ability to gape at something new."

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George Orwell Writer, Journalist
Style

"So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information."

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Gustave Flaubert Novelist
Style

"There are neither good nor bad subjects. From the point of view of pure Art, you could almost establish it as an axiom that the subject is irrelevant, style itself being an absolute manner of seeing things."

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Nina Garcia Fashion Journalist, Author
Style

"Fashion is expensive. Style is not. Some of the most stylish girls I know are certainly not the wealthiest."

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Lil Wayne Rapper, Musician
Style

"Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Style

"Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution."

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Jeff Bezos Entrepreneur
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"... if it's not your style to stretch and go the extra mile to make sure our customer experience is great, you're going to have an allergic reaction to this company. You probably won't stay. If you do try and stay, but can't adapt to the culture then it will reject you like a virus from a healthy immune system."

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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Style

"Gonzo journalism is a style of reporting based on William Faulkner's idea that the best fiction is far more true than any kind of journalism."

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Ludwig Wittgenstein Philosopher
Style

"If anyone is unwilling to descend into himself, because this is too painful, he will remain superficial in his writing. . . If I perform to myself, then it’s this that the style expresses. And then the style cannot be my own. If you are unwilling to know what you are, your writing is a form of deceit."

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