Iris Apfel Quotes
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I believe Mexico should dedicate 100% of its oil revenues to developing human capital and technological development. None of us politicians should be able to touch that money.
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The mystery of existence is the connection between our faults and our misfortunes.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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I don't mind being interviewed on television or radio.
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Politics is the art of the possible.
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I quite like Low, the band from Minnesota. They're absolutely mesmerizing. I get much the same feeling from anything that Will Oldham does.
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I think of myself as a journeyman actor. I've got some talent and I work hard, but people like Brando or Pacino - those people are touched by God.
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For a man of my generation, our century has been a long intellectual and political struggle in favor of freedom.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I first read Heinlein when I was very young.
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I grew up in Germany for a little while, and all my German friends said that Seattle, weather and energy-wise, is a lot like West Germany. It's true.
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The Obama economy has led to the lowest labor force participation since 1978.
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If you seek my help and guidance, I will immediately give it to you.
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I find it hard to be labelled in this new 'super-rich' category because we all grew up with very little. The idea that 'to get rich is glorious' is really a new phenomenon. I certainly didn't grow up like that.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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There's very little bohemia in Australia and it's one of the things I miss most about not living in Europe.
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The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
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If the hand be held between the discharge-tube and the screen, the darker shadow of the bones is seen within the slightly dark shadow-image of the hand itself... For brevity's sake I shall use the expression 'rays'; and to distinguish them from others of this name I shall call them 'X-rays'.
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Towards the end of summer 2013, when school ended, I decided to re-download all of my social media channels and make videos again. The next day, I woke up and had 9,000 followers. I did the same thing the next day and woke up with 54,000 followers.
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I left Beijing in the late 1980s to live in Hong Kong because, having been blacklisted by the government, I couldn't publish my works on the mainland.
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I don't look at Instagram. I don't have much to do with social media.
