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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Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.
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'Honour'-based violence is a form of domestic violence. Domestic violence is a broad category.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Loretta Lynn was one of those ladies a long time ago that opened a lot of doors and paved the way for a lot of ballsy singer-songwriters who weren't just cute.
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I was a 'learn by doing' writer - I never took any formal writing classes. So it took a long time to figure things out and find my voice.
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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.
