Iris Apfel Quotes
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Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
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To him who, though by no means near the end, is yet advancing, He is the way; to him who has put off all that is dead He is the life.
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I want to thank the many Missourians who have reached out to me and asked me to consider running for the United States Senate.
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I'm cranky.
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This is a strange game.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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If your mom is still around, you're so lucky.
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I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice, and I have a way with a line. What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting.
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Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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I've never worried about payback. People are hungry for leadership that's not afraid of political consequence.
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Google has been an amazing benefit for our business. People understand the whole world of mapping and want to do more than not get lost. They want to do spatial analytics. It's been fantastic for us.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Boxing is one of the few sports that is one on one.
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I'm a good audience in general, but it's hard to make me laugh.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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In the theatre, once you've gone about eight rows back, everybody else is just listening to you. You're very small, and nobody can really see what you're doing.
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I'd like to give people leaden boots in galleries, so they'd be a bit slower in front of my paintings. And that's because I spend so much time looking at them. I can look at them a long, long time without getting bored. I disappear.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex.
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I like Public Enemy a great deal.
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There's no smarter politician out there than Bill Clinton.
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Great triumphs of engineering genius-the locomotive, the truss bridge, the steel rail- ... are rather invention than engineering proper.
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Technology is a wonderful thing, but I think it's violently misused.
