Iris Apfel Quotes
People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
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I began both auditioning with Pearl Jam and recording for Eleven. In the fall of 1994, I joined Pearl Jam.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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I don't do detoxes or cleanses; they don't really work for me.
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Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
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The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules.
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I don't know if it's because I'm Latina or something, but I have no problem speaking my mind.
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If you think that by threatening me you can get me to do what you want... well, that's where you're right. But - and I am only saying this because I care - there's a lot of decaffeinated brands on the market that are just as tasty as the real thing.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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You forget that sometimes comedy is just a big night out for people. Almost every show, people come up to me and go, 'This is the first comedy show I've ever seen,' so you want to do well. If you do horribly at somebody's first time seeing live stand-up, well, you've not only tainted yourself, you've tainted a whole art form.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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Working on 'Girls' opened up a lot of opportunity for me. It's like a dream job. It's a dream.
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The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.
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I don't think I've ever met any single person who has been vulgar. But you know, you learn along the way that some people are going to be very generous, and other people... It's just not innate within them. Sometimes I think you just have to decide if you're going to stand up and get on with it or if you're going to be crushed and threatened.
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Anyone who takes himself too seriously always runs the risk of looking ridiculous; anyone who can consistently laugh at himself does not.
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I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a character as to where it lives in me.
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We should seek to cooperate with Europe, not to divide Europe to a fictitious new and a fictitious old.
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When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that explained how to be, how to laugh, what to wear, how to stand by yourself in the hallway. Everyone looked so natural - like they all practiced and knew exactly what to do - even the way they pushed their hair out of their face.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.
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There was nothing he could do unless he accepted what was real.
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It's motivating to think that you, as one person, can make a world of difference in someone else's life.
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I think it's absolutely essential that the people that work for a company need to feel that they're part of something bigger - that it's not just a job.
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Maybe a long life does have to be filled with many unpleasant conditions if it's to seem long. But in that event, who wants one?
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People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'
