Iris Apfel Quotes
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How hard have those intolerant of John Adams's perspective worked to strip from young people any hope of knowing the concepts and truths that help deal with life?
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
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Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
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It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
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Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material.
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America preaches integration and practices segregation.
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I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Hungary was the only Central European country that was not able to create a new constitution after the collapse of the communist regime.
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My own style depends on my location. Hippie-chic in Costa Rica, tailored and clean in N.Y.C., and great jeans and comfy tops with fun sneakers in L.A.
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Money is small and the soul stands tall. All those who don't realize this, fall.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me.
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Protecting the environment is really important to everyone's welfare - that of our children, as well as that of the future generations.
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When I see three balls, I just swing at the middle one.
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In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
