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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Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master.
Sallust -
As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
Barry Silbert -
I'm a big sports fan - mainly basketball.
Lamorne Morris -
The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
Ted Sarandos -
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
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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 -
Back in the day, I used to read 'Archie,' but I haven't been a comic book aficionado.
Danai Gurira -
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
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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 -
An artist's job is simply to take the mirror in front of your face and hold it there. It's not to give you any answers. It is simply to take that mirror and point it at you.
Aasif Mandvi -
The Disney deal for us, we are very excited to be their Pay 1 partner, where we are a big licensing partner of Disney all over the world in all different windows.
Ted Sarandos -
But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
Damien Hirst -
How do you possibly say that a cover band is better than the band that created and wrote the material? It's absurd.
Eddie Trunk
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I made the choice long ago to write about real life. And life is both serious and funny.
Paula Danziger -
A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out.
Walter Winchell -
Murderers will try to recall the sequence of events, they will remember exactly what they did just before and just after. But they can never remember the actual moment of killing. This is why they will always leave a clue.
Peter Ackroyd -
Nothing that we have authorized conflicts with any law regarding privacy or any provision of the constitution.
John Ashcroft -
The Aztecs believe they started up in what's now New Mexico, and wandered for 10,000 years before they got down into where they are now, in Mexico City. That's a weird legend.
Jerry Pournelle -
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