Iris Apfel Quotes
I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
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When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes directly because they didn't have much expanded imagination or technique or knowledge.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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I did some theater as a kid for fun. But it was really by chance that I landed into acting.
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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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Of course I'm naughty. I've always had to compete for attention, you see.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.
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It's hard for people sometimes to relate to me. They weren't in the military, they weren't injured overseas in Iraq, they weren't burned, they didn't go through 33 surgeries, or two and a half years in the hospital.
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I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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I'm not going to jump out of airplanes or anything like someone else I know.
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I am very proud of what I have done since I turned professional. It's been great to become the first teenager to win three times, to have played in some Majors and the Masters, and to have twice broken into the world's top 50 and stayed there for a bit of time.
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If you only share your best pictures, or your Facetuned self, the thought of people seeing you as you truly are can be scary.
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I think 'Comic Book: The Movie' is the apex of my career in terms of making a personal statement that has significance to me and resonates with biographical detail about not only my career, but all the people that I've worked with in my career. All of it's riddled, on- and off-camera, with people I've known and worked with for decades.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Gelatins are one of most unbelievable areas in cooking today.
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I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.
