Iris Apfel Quotes
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I'm happy to sacrifice a big pay cheque for my happiness, if that's not too corny a thing to say. It's probably more naive than mature to say that, maybe, but that's how I feel.
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Buildings are always better than drawings and models.
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There is perhaps no better way to appreciate the dizzying stupidity of the United States than to chat with 25 consecutive morning radio hosts.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don't know... I don't believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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As I age, I become more and more happy with what I see in the mirror. At some point, that's going to stop.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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Laughter made you live better and longer.
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Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
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I've started doing my Kathak, and I rehearse every day. Also, I'm eating right and keeping in shape. I'm a non-smoker and non-drinker and essentially a happy person. That's what counts the most. Your well-being is reflected in your personality.
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With 'Girls'... I feel like there's an impulse to try to make it look better or neater or more perfect, and when I watch theater, television, movies, it's always the imperfection I'm always more attracted to.
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I do hold very strongly that tea is better in England. There's something in the milk. They must have special cows.
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Every time I go out there and compete, my number is, of course, $100 million or better.
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I think I was dealt a good hand. I have happy genes.
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If Northern Ireland had better weather, it would be like New Zealand. It's an immensely beautiful country.
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As far as actors go, you're not going to find many ballplayers better than me.
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The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.
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I'm a better polemicist in prose.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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I don't want to have so many exes.
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I work as an artist, and I think the audience of one, which is the self, and I have to satisfy myself as an artist. So I always say that I write for the same people that Picasso painted for. I think he painted for himself.
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I've done a show at the Largo Theater called The 'Thrilling Adventure Hour.' We read, like, radio teleplays. It's a send-up of radio dramas from the '30s and '40s. We just did a Kickstarter for that so that we can do a web series and a concert film.
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I worked hard when I was a consultant. I worked hard when I was in graduate school looking at neuroscience. I worked hard as a teacher. But those are completely different career paths. And the lack of direction is why I didn't get far enough in any of those things.
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The great hindrance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.
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It's better to be happy than to be well-dressed.
