Iris Apfel Quotes
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
Iris Apfel
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It was wrongly assumed that I wished to become some sort of leader among gay activists, whereas in reality I was happier to be a foot soldier.
Ian Mckellen
Unless you are Stephen King, a book signing is attended by maybe 40 or 50 people.
Dana Stabenow
As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
Hungary is, in a word, in a state of WAR against the Hapsburg dynasty, a war of legitimate defence, by which alone it can ever regain independence and freedom.
Lajos Kossuth
By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
Walter Gilbert
Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
Danai Gurira
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
Vera Farmiga
A novel is a great act of passion and intellect, carpentry and largess. From the very beginning, I wrote to explain my own life to myself, and I invited readers who chose to make the journey with me to join me on the high wire.
Pat Conroy
Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
Wayne Gretzky
Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
Katee Sackhoff
When you have an iPad and 75 books on it, it's so easy to go, 'I'm bored, I'm just going to read something else.'
Eddie Kaye Thomas
If women really want equality, we have to wipe the slate clean. It no longer matters in the largest sense what men did to us for the last 200 or 300 years.
Nancy Friday
I had thought about becoming a civil rights lawyer, but I gave it up.
Kate Thompson
Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.
Yann Martel
Every 'Star Wars' film was about pushing what was possible in terms of effects, puppets, matte paintings, stop motion and, now, digitally.
Dave Filoni
It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits.
John F. Kennedy
I had a very brilliant father who was not only intellectual, but was street-smart and very curious to boot. The day I found out that he didn't know everything, I grew up. It was a shock. I just thought that the man was the end-all of everything, and he knew the answer to everything. Then I found out I'd have to find out my own answers.
Iris Apfel
