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Iris Apfel Quotes

I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: businesswoman
Nationality: american
Birth: August 29, 1921

Topics

Love Me Look Boring Always Up

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

Good Man People Dinner Gentleman

The nice thing about 'Futurama' for me personally was that it was a way to honor some of the traditional ideas in literary science fiction, not so much movie or television science fiction - although we have that too, obviously. Our situation, a workplace comedy, led to all sorts of stuff.

Science Me Ideas Honor Comedy Nice

Not having a father is big. You need guidance. I know, personally, when my father died, I needed guidance; I needed somebody to show me how to be a man, how to grow up, basically how to do the right thing.

Father Man Do The Right Thing Me You

A Web site that promotes flow is like a gourmet meal. You start off with the appetizers, move on to the salads and entrees, and build toward dessert. Unfortunately, most sites are built like a cafeteria. You pick whatever you want. That sounds good at first, but soon it doesn't matter what you choose to do. Everything is bland and the same.

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Good Start You Choose Move On Want

'Game of Thrones' has never much concerned itself with shining a torch on the powerless. Their hunger and suffering in a land ravaged by war is of little concern to the story's most powerful characters, whose antics bring so much pain to the people.

Pain War People Suffering Game Land

When all of us are acknowledged as the human equals that we really are, there will be no space left for bullying. It will no longer be wrong to choose one thing over another.

Bullying Space Choose Wrong Will Us

The strangest thing that human speech and human writing can do is create a metaphor. That is an amazing leap, is it not?

Amazing Writing Speech Create Leap

I really love doing what I do, being an actor. It's the greatest. You can do it until you die.

Love You Can Do It Die Doing You

I know when the Berlin wall went down and I walked into what was East Berlin and saw two big Nike banners - that gave me a chill.

Me Chill Down Wall Know Big

I got very cross with the term, kitchen sink. It just meant that you invaded different kinds of houses, where it was very difficult to avoid kitchen sink.

Kitchen You Difficult Different Just

Greatest hits is easy because one has nothing to do - except that we both, Roger and I, felt that new songs should be there because I've been away for awhile.

Easy New Nothing Greatest Away Been

A housing renaissance has begun. This may be hard to believe after the dizzying, six-year-long crash in home sales, construction and house prices. But housing turned the corner last year, and it will take off in 2013.

Home Construction Believe Year House

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