Iris Apfel Quotes
I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
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It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.
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Science fiction frees you to go anyplace and examine anything.
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I have to remember that winning an Oscar is an almost unbelievable goal and that it is an honour just to be nominated.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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What I hope to do in the States is to break up this stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs. I mean, we are basically the only sub-culture that is not represented in Hollywood. And it's funny because everybody is talking about the Muslim world and the Arab world, and we are not represented.
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I want to write novels, and I want to write and direct theater.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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The way you personally communicate is 90 per cent of how you will be evaluated by any future employer.
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My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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The thing is, any time anyone invades anyone on stage, the invader always looks really bad no matter what point they're proving - obviously that applies to myself too.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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I work extremely hard to stay positive and happy. But I get sad and anxious, too, just like everyone.
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There are so many figures in our history that did not believe they could make a change, and they did.
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My first published work was when I was 19, in 'Playgirl.' It was an odd experience but exciting.
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That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.
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I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them.
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What we are seeing here is environmental injustice.
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I come from a profession which has suffered greatly because of the lack of civility. Lawyers treat each other poorly and it has come home to haunt them. The public will not tolerate a lack of civility.
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When I was about ten, I was very impressed by the way Tarzan could swing through the trees from vine to vine. No one ever told me, 'Don't try this at home.'
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Wars are fought to gain a certain objective. War itself is not the objective; victory is not the objective; you fight to remove the obstruction that comes in the way of your objective. If you let victory become the end in itself then you've gone astray and forgotten what you were originally fighting about.
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I am not a fashionista, and I don't dress up. Usually if I'm at home, where I am now, I'm wearing a robe.
