Iris Apfel Quotes
Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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Microcurrent devices are actually really good because they stimulate the muscles, but I'm not a big fan of injectables. You don't know what they'll do to your face in the long run.
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A theoretical system does not merely state facts which have been observed and that logically deducible relations to other facts which have also been observed.
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When civilization takes a nose dive, how can you look away? You've got to be there. You've got to be at the bottom of the swimming pool taking notes.
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It's nice to know about something as soon as it happens, and obviously a newspaper can't provide that.
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During a movie, chemistry is so important, and yet they just assume actors can fake their way through it. That doesn't always work.
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We're going to create a portable handheld environment, and you should expect the same things you've always expected from Playstation - a great quality product, versatility, great value to the consumer.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There are people who go clad in tunics and have nothing to do with furs, who nevertheless are lacking in humility. Surely humility in furs is better than pride in tunics.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Women are sacred.
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Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
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I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.
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Irish people are educated not only about artistry but local history.
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People are not interested in you. They are not interested in me. They are interested in themselves - morning, noon and after dinner.
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I'm into creating something that I've never created before.
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It will soon be 25 years from the date of publication of my first research work. That the scientific aspirations kindled by that early work did not suffer extinction has been due entirely to the opportunities provided for me by the great city of Calcutta.
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It is only the ignorant who despise education.
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Throughout history, clothes represented who you were; they are a great vehicle for explaining who you are. During the Ching dynasty, for example, what you wore and how it was made reflected your status in society. People could literally read your clothes like a book, just by its color and how it was embroidered.
