Iris Apfel Quotes
Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
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I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.
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Five guys on the court working together can achieve more than five talented individuals who come and go as individuals.
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There are as many ways to help another human being as there are people in need of help. For some, the urgent need is as basic as food and water. For others, it is an opportunity to develop a talent, realize an idea, and reach one's full potential.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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Los Angeles is peopled by waiters and carpenters and drivers who are there to be actors.
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I work in a very contained environment, usually.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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I find very often people like to confront rumors. It depends on how much they trust you. And you have to have a line between what is tasteful and what isn't.
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The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.
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I adore Eddie Kaye Thomas and Jason Biggs. Eddie was the only one who called me when they were doing 'American Reunion' and told me, 'You need to do this.'
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
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Christlike communications are expressions of affection and not anger, truth and not fabrication, compassion and not contention, respect and not ridicule, counsel and not criticism, correction and not condemnation. They are spoken with clarity and not with confusion. They may be tender or they may be tough, but they must always be tempered.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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I would have never signed the Patriot Act. I would have never signed the National Defense Authorization Act allowing for arrests and detainment of you and me as U.S. citizens without being charged.
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We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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He who is contented is rich.
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I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.
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Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.
