Iris Apfel Quotes
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Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
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I have four kids. They are two years apart, and contraception has been very, very good to me.
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I definitely go with the flow because I feel like I have been so lucky, and so many things have happened to me that just never should have happened.
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To be honest, I think that I am a bit of a singer, coming from Wales; being Welsh, we are all very proud of our singing heritage.
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How the visual world appears is important to me. I'm always aware of the light. I'm always aware of what I would call the 'deep composition.' Photography in the field is a process of creation, of thought and technique. But ultimately, it's an act of imaginatively seeing from within yourself.
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It's all part of my journey - I've done a lot of stupid things, but you learn by your mistakes.
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Lyrics are so important, I hate every second of writing them, but it's something I take great pride in when it's finished.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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There are 309 million people out there that are trying to improve their lot in life. And we've got a system that allows them to do it.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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I spent my entire childhood with my father. I started my first business at 16, and we became business partners. He's not just a mentor and somebody that I look up to, but he's also someone whom I took work ethic and determination and all of those qualities from.
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The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
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Librarians have always stood up for writers and readers in every kind of community across this country.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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As technology breaks down the physical barriers of college campuses, the extraordinary intellectual capital of the educator community is becoming available to anyone committed to learning - regardless of age, income or location.
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Despite his NFL pedigree, Clay Matthews had to fight every step of the way to get to the NFL. Once there, he's had a unique appreciation of what it took to succeed.
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My father played guitar, so I always wanted to play for that reason. But I think the biggest reason was just the '90s in general - growing up listening to the Smashing Pumpkins, Green Day and bands like that, and going to concerts and thinking it was the coolest thing in the world.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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I never had any idea of going into movies.
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One of the obvious things that went wrong with Multics as a commercial success was just that it was sort of over-engineered in a sense. There was just too much in it.
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No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Clothes are not frippery. Properly done, they can be an art form.
