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?
Foster Friess -
His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.
Oliver Hudson -
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.
Cameron van der Burgh -
Food doesn't necessarily have to suck in order to be healthy. It doesn't have to be terrible to be healthy anymore.
Daniel Cormier -
Science progresses best when observations force us to alter our preconceptions.
Vera Rubin -
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.
Ian Anderson
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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.
P. J. Harvey -
I am very much against makeup and high heels and all that we inherit as 'beauty.'
Nawal El Saadawi -
It is the cause, not the death, that makes the martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
America preaches integration and practices segregation.
Malcolm X -
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.
Zosia Mamet
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
Carl Sandburg -
A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
Sam Rayburn -
My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar -
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.
Ha-Joon Chang -
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.
Sammi Hanratty -
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
Walt Disney
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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.
Viktor Orban -
You know it I know it Why don't you Just show it You got a lot of money but you can't afford the freeway
Aimee Mann -
I don't think I am going to do pictures which are anything like Renaissance art.
Nan Goldin -
The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.
Wendell Berry -
I had many moments of disappointment, despondency, and exhaustion, but I always found that by reading the literature and showing up at my lab looking at the data as they emerged day by day and discussing them with my students and postdoctoral fellows, I would gain a notion of what to do next.
Eric Kandel -
In my view, you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
Iris Apfel