Iris Apfel Quotes

You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

Iris Apfel

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• The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

  

  Harold Coffin
  • Conscience
  • Worse
  • Active

• I've always been in love with music, but I've never thought to sing.

  

  Tamala Jones
  • Music
  • Always
  • Thought

• I need to feel as if everything is clean and in its proper place before I can even attempt to write one word. At least, that's what I tell myself. I make the bed, I put away the dishes, maybe I dust, maybe I do the laundry, maybe I go to the post office.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • Myself
  • Feel
  • One Word

• At every turn, small businesses should be encouraged to compete. When they do, we all win.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Small
  • Win
  • Turn

• I did not have a father. It was my mom who chose to be alone. She felt that she would be better off by herself with me after I was born.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Father
  • Alone
  • Mom

• A lot of people who curate in the business, and curate the art, don't really have good artistic sense. They may know commerce, but they aren't savvy enough to know how to balance commerce and art, you know? They don't know how to satisfy both palates.

  

  Q-Tip
  • People
  • Good
  • Art

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Tree
  • Fruit
  • Tall

• Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

  

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger
  • You
  • Culture
  • See

• I was doing things that weren't good for me. So I checked into the Churchill Priory clinic. It was the best thing I've done for ages.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Good
  • Best
  • Thing

• Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Experience
  • You
  • Acting

• What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • She
  • Nature
  • Blessed

• I believe there is a direct correlation between love and laughter.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Believe
  • Love
  • Laughter

• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • People
  • Children
  • Parents

• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • God
  • Job

• Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Different
  • Me
  • Scary

• I guess there are all these women with a big secret - they're hiding men they are ashamed of. They come up to me and say: 'I've been dating this guy for six months in secret but none of my friends know. I can't give him up even though he's embarrassing.'

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Up
  • Men
  • Women

• People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • Interesting
  • Financial

• I could probably name thousands of albums that I want.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Want
  • Name
  • Albums

• I love my co-hosts and the crew at 'The Talk.'

  

  Marissa Jaret Winokur

• One of the best moments is right here during History Tour in Copenhagen, on his birthday in 1997. Right here. It’s right in the middle of the show and it’s my birthday and I’m thousands of miles away from my family. When they surprised me with the full marching band and then they brought out this huge, beautiful birthday cake.. I realized that I’ve got family all over the world. Everywhere I go, because my fans really show me the love and I love them just as much.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Moment
  • Copenhagen
  • History Tour

• During the summer of 2009, the debate on health care reform was emotional and intense. At its best, it represented the free exchange of ideas that makes this country great. At its worst, it generated death threats and acts of violence.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Great
  • Country
  • Death

• I came from battling, knowing about the lyrics. All that's cool, but if you want people to love you, you have to talk to them about what they go through.

  

  Karim Kharbouch
  • People
  • Cool
  • Lyrics

• You can be born with the talent to be an opera star, but you've got to work and practice it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • Star
  • Practice