Iris Apfel Quotes
I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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If I allow journalists to describe a collection and they make mistakes, I'm upset, because the retractions are never noticed.
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Did anyone ever have a boring dream?
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.
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I had toured so much in the 1960s and 1970s that I wanted a break. I didn't go back touring until 1995.
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Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.
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I think 'The Walking Dead' is very interestingly paced. It's slow, almost like an old Western. It's also very stylised - visually, I think it's very pretty. It's more of a psychological drama than anything else.
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My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
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It was around the summer of 1982 when the drug problem really impacted. It became a lifestyle rather than a recreation. When you start lying and stealing, you cannot con yourself you're in control any more.
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I'm an artist, and I'm a bit weird, and I'm probably a bit eccentric.
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Man is a strange animal. He generally cannot read the handwriting on the wall until his back is up against it.
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I was a DJ in college and had my own punk music-focused show all four years.
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The morals of yesterday are no more. They are as dead as the day they were lived. Economic independence has put woman on exactly the same footing as man.
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Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.
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The Korean War has also show quite clearly that in a major conflict manpower is as important as horsepower.
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I don't expect to find inspiration. It just sort of comes. Sometimes you step on a bug and you get inspired.
