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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For someone making a pilot, assuming the talent is there and you can maneuver the system properly, it's just a matter of standing your ground and trying to make something great until you are making enough money for the studio that they let you keep making it.
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These days there are a lot of people who just want to be famous. I think that comes from a naive place, because those people generally don't know what it's like.
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Inspiration may be a form of super-consciousness, or perhaps of subconsciousness I wouldn't know. But I am sure it is the antithesis of self-consciousness.
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Some souls think that the Holy Spirit is very far away, far, far, up above. Actually he is, we might say, the divine Person who is most closely present to the creature. He accompanies him everywhere. He penetrates him with himself. He calls him, he protects him. He makes of him his living temple. He defends him. He helps him. He guards him from all his enemies. He is closer to him than his own soul. All the good a soul accomplishes, it carries out under his inspiration, in his light, by his grace and his help.
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I think I am worth a lot of money.
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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.
