Iris Apfel Quotes
I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
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It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.
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She's been on more laps than a napkin.
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I gave up on the delusion that these players enjoy soccer as much as I do, that they play for the love of the game.
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If life must not be taken too seriously, then so neither must death.
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In some communities, I show up, and they say, 'Well, we haven't seen our Democrat congressman in 10 years.'
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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Finishing games has been something I'm really proud of, seeing something through to the end.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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I've always been very in tune to my voice and to other people's voices and how they express themselves vocally. And I always loved accents and dialects - I collected them like stamps.
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I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.
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You have giant Facebook, which wants people to be more engaged, and they also want to grow and trade different things, including content.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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Hollywood would make a holocaust an animated comedy if people would pay to see it; they don't care... they just want your money.
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It doesn't matter if you don't have a complete set of anything because repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern, repetition creates pattern.
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Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.
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Gold medals are made out of sweat, blood and tears and effort in the gym every day.
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There is always a time to move on.
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I'm sorry - you know, culture is elitist. Culture has to be elitist: it's about seeing and knowing and about knowledge.
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You can't fuel real economic growth with indiscriminate credit. You can only fuel it with well-allocated, long-term investment.
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The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.
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I go out in New York, and I think, boy, you can look at someone and pretty much determine their zip code. Everyone seems to want to conform. I wonder, are they all just button-pressers, on the Internet all day long? I don't know.
