Iris Apfel Quotes
Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
Iris Apfel
Quotes to Explore
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A bowler is his own captain. I know what needs to be done, what the ball is doing. If you don't know where you are going to bowl and where you think the batsman will hit, then how can you tell the captain what you want? You are the judge.
Harbhajan Singh
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Of course watching a particularly exciting game or a wonderful contestant is always a joy.
Randy West
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I've always had confidence. It came because I have lots of initiative. I wanted to make something of myself.
Eddie Murphy
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Writing requires the concentration of the writer, demands that nothing else be done except that.
Carlos Fuentes
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Once you understand that Goliath is much weaker than you think he is, and David has superior technology, then you say: why do we tell the story the way we do? It becomes, actually, a far more meaningful and important story in its retelling than in the kind of unsophisticated way we've done it for, I think, too long.
Malcolm Gladwell
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To be a great artist, you need to know yourself as best as you possibly can. I live my life and delve into my own psyche. It's more about exploring how I feel rather than making pale imitations of something that came before. We are unique beings, and the way we look at things is our own.
Bat for Lashes
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I always put my boxing first.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
B. B. King
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We all wish to live. We all seek a world in which men are freed of the burdens of ignorance, poverty, hunger and disease. And we shall all be hard-pressed to escape the deadly rain of nuclear fall-out should catastrophe overtake us.
Haile Selassie
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I've experienced many hardships, but mentally, I've always been older, and that reflects in my actions, too.
Kailash Kher
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I live my life by these little church signs you see as you drive around, and there's one near me that says, 'If we really knew each other, we would neither idolise nor condemn.' And that's it: if we all knew each other, then we wouldn't treat anybody any different. And there wouldn't be any big stars, I guess.
Garth Brooks
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I think I've played a lesbian about five times. The first one was with Helen Baxendale in a drama called 'The Investigator,' about the conditions lesbians had to live under in the army in Britain, which was based on a true story.
Laura Fraser
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The primary reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think.
Bruce Lee
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I have trouble with any kind of focus or concentrating, or getting anything done at all, really.
Nellie McKay
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Pitch-black winter nights live in my bones.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
Paramahansa Yogananda
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I think it is not only important that people go to the Anne Frank House to see the secret annex, but also that they are helped to realise that people are also persecuted today because of their race, religion or political convictions.
Otto Frank
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Shock can kill you. Shock is terrible. But what you've got to do is live in the present, which is what I have always done.
Iris Apfel
