Iris Apfel Quotes

I had the good fortune to be able to take a course with Margaret Mead. I had a fabulous art course, where it was explained to me that nothing exists in a vacuum, that everything is a result of the period in which it's done - the economics, the sociology, the politics, all sewn together. That was a very important lesson.

Iris Apfel

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GoodArtTogetherPoliticsEconomics

This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

Angela Merkel

LiveSayingSideMulticulturalOther

I come from a country in which I experienced economic collapse.

Angela Merkel

CountryEconomicComeCollapseWhich

In my career, I have done more than a thousand voice-overs in commercials, cartoons, and radio shows, so I'm very familiar of my voice capabilities and its range.

Stefan Kapicic

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Driver Shepherd and I had been detailed to drive Lt. Budden in the Wireless Truck. We had been standing by vehicles for an hour, and nothing had happened, but it happened frequently.

Spike Milligan

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On the relationship side, if you teach people to respond actively and constructively when someone they care about has a victory, it increases love and friendship and decreases the probability of depression.

Martin Seligman

FriendshipLoveRelationshipPeople

It's crazy because I was 10 years old when 'Macarena' was all over the place, and I remember looking at it from a different point of view. I remember culturally how important that song was, even though people didn't really know what they were saying. It was more about the dance and the movement of it and the cultural side of it.

Luis Fonsi

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One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

Jose Rizal

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It's important to acknowledge the danger when we provide an academic venue for racism. It's interesting to hear people push the, quote, 'free speech' narrative in this way. They deny the speech of the people who disagree.

DeRay Mckesson

RacismPeopleFreePushInteresting

If you're not a tree hugger, then you're a what, a tree hater?

Douglas Coupland

TreeYouThenHater

The night I won the Emmy, I probably cried for three hours on and off.

Brad Garrett

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Never in my life did I steal a penny that didn't belong to me.

Sean Quinn

LifeMeMy LifePennyNeverBelong

Many years ago, it was my opportunity to serve as president of the Canadian Mission. There we had a branch with very limited priesthood. We always had a missionary presiding over the branch. I received a strong impression that we needed to have a member of the branch preside there.

Thomas S. Monson

OpportunityStrongMissionPresident

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