Iris Apfel Quotes
I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
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I suffer from a more complex, persistent fear. It manifests itself in nerves, and on film the camera sees even the tiniest evidence of this. So you have to learn that when the director calls 'Action,' you don't go to this place of tension, but somehow you become free.
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Apple Computer would not have reached its current peak of success if it had feared to roll the dice and launch products that didn't always hit the mark. In the mid-1990s, the company was considered washed up, Steve Jobs had departed, and a string of lackluster product launches unrelated to the company's core business.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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All those years of skating and dancing have carried over. I can't design anything without thinking of how a woman's body will look and move when she's wearing it.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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As long as there is cash, and the economy is running, all is well. But as a bank, we'll have to test, experiment, try a hundred different things. A few may work, a few may fail, but we have to experiment and try.
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I love all kinds of music, and I would write really traditional country songs and songs that were just really out there, that didn't sound country at all, and everything in between.
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There is no finer sonic-producing weapon for a guitar slayer than a hand crafter Gibson masterpiece.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Hey, the TV was my friend. As a child, I always said, 'I want to live in there someday.'
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We start out a million years ago in a small community on some grassy plain; we hunt animals, have children, and develop a rich social, sexual, and intellectual life, but we know almost nothing about our surroundings.
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In the U.S.A., technical innovations come out of universities and the research produced by Ph.D. students. We don't have that happening in India.
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Personally, I love theater; that's where I started.
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I knew she was from Australia and I knew that is where she started but I didn't know if she was still popular there. I hope people understand we aren't making fun of Kylie.
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I'm kind of long in the tooth to fly in in a cape now, so I'd have to be, like, the voice of reason or somebody. 'Don't do that, super-fellow!'
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It's so important your customer can rely on you for your classics.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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Any man who does not like dogs and want them about does not deserve to be in the White House.
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The nice thing about a series is you can end on cliffhangers all the time. You can be like, 'You know what? Here we go, this person just died, end of book.' And with the end of the series, you're very conscious of all the plotlines that were left hanging. There's a balance there to wrap those up but still leave it exciting.
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It's hard to imagine what the Bronte sisters' lives would've been like had they been men. Different things would've been expected of them, and maybe they wouldn't have ended up writing because they would've been packed off to do something else.
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My husband and I have been involved with foster youth since our early 20s. Right out of college and not yet married, we spent weekends mentoring a family of young girls.
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I think we just got outplayed. I think Oklahoma just played better than we did. They certainly displayed the fact that they were a little tougher than we were.
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I still have the dress I wore on the first date with my husband, which was more than 66 years ago. I still have it, and it still fits.
