Iris Apfel Quotes

You have to push yourself when you're older because it's very easy to fall into the trap. You start to fall apart - you just have to do your best to paste yourself together. I think doing things and being active is very important. When your mind is busy, you don't hurt so much.

Iris Apfel

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BestTogetherDo Your BestYourself

It's like dance is a metaphor for going beyond where you think you can go.

Jennifer Grey

DanceThinkYouGoBeyondGoing

If there's a country, and it's dangerous, and we deploy a U.S.military man or woman, if there's only one there, and they never leave the capital, that is 'boots on the ground.'

John F. Kelly

WomanManBootsCountryDangerous

Americans understand that one of our great national strengths is innovation. Great innovators - Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and others - are household names.

Robert Hormats

InnovationGreatUnderstandOthers

I enjoy all mediums, and I have to say, music is the medium that first made me understand how powerful art could be.

Jeff Koons

MusicArtMeEnjoyPowerfulSay

I want to tell stories powerful people don't want you to tell. It's not worth getting out of bed otherwise.

John Sweeney

PeopleWorthYouPowerfulBedWant

Forgetfulness - a gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

Ambrose Bierce

GodGiftConscienceCompensation

How can we say we're for family values when so many women in the United States have to jeopardize their livelihood to take a few weeks off from work after giving birth? Should a man have to sacrifice his economic security to take care of his sick mother or his wife returning wounded from active duty?

Tom Perez

WorkFamilyMotherWomenWifeMan

Democracy matters because it reflects an idea of equality and an idea of liberty. It reflects an idea of dignity, the dignity of the individual, the idea that each individual should have an equal vote, an equal say, in the formation of their government.

Rory Stewart

GovernmentEqualityDemocracyDignity

Put me in with anyone in the top 10, and I win.

Robert Whittaker

MeWinTopPutAnyone

The privilege of ruling would be in the hands of the skilled and the learned, with a wide scope left for profitable crooked deals carried on by the Jews, who would be attracted by the enormous extension of the international speculations of the national banks.

Mikhail Bakunin

HandsPrivilegeLeftCrookedWould

I'm not in the business of meddling with people's destinies - and yes, my characters are real people to me. They have histories and thoughts and yearnings and hurts and misgivings and pleasures that don't belong to me.

Jonathan Evison

BusinessPeopleMeThoughtsReal

Dogs and philosophers do the greatest good and get the fewest rewards.

Diogenes

GoodDogsGreatestGetRewards

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