Iris Apfel Quotes
I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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I'm pretty much friendly and compassionate to everybody. But not to people in the ring.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.
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Putting on my legs is like putting on my shoes. I understand that's how some people might think differently, but I hope that in London, their perceptions open up.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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Whenever I get an audition to do something that is sci-fi-related, it makes me really happy because I realize that I can continue doing the work that I'm doing and continue meeting people all over the world. It does baffle my management team sometimes, though!
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You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined the road, shouting and waving hats and handkerchiefs as we flew by them.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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We are all several different people. There are different aspects of our nature that are competing.
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The biggest misconception people have about me is that when they see how young I am, they think, 'Oh, this guy must have always wanted to be in politics; his parents must have been politically connected.' I'm a finance major and always intended to go into business.
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I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.
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The two great aims of industrialism - replacement of people by technology and concentration of wealth into the hands of a small plutocracy - seem close to fulfillment.
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I don't believe in doing things to manufacture my body to appeal to what I think people might like.
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People like to think that actors are terribly worried about ghosts of other actors in the parts they play. But you just have to get on with it.
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Readers want to have the confidence that you understand the era in which the book is set, so for 'The Perfumer's Secret,' I needed to know everything about the First World War from a French perspective. I had to understand those people and that town in 1914.
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You want stability in the world, you have to start with values.
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The word 'Chicano' was originally a derisive term from Mexicans to other Mexicans living in the United States.
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I was never a fan of Chanel. I liked it on other people. Some other people. All the ladies who were too plump and busty looked like little sausages.
