Iris Apfel Quotes

I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.

Iris Apfel

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I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Jim Carrey

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It's all about balance and, I think, being in the moment.

Jennie Finch

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I bade adieu to mechanical inventions, determined to devote the rest of my life to the study of the inventions of God.

John Muir

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A lot of people aren't saving enough. And incidentally, people are living longer now, and health care is improving. You might end up retired for 30 years - people are not really preparing for that.

Robert J. Shiller

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I grew up in a house that was in a constant state of mourning.

Maurice Sendak

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I love marriage.

Jeff Bridges

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My sister and I used to act as maids and waitresses at my great aunt and uncle's cocktail parties, which were very much sort of retired, minor stars of the Yiddish theater and the Yiddish opera.

Amy Bloom

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The more sophisticated we get, the more advanced our buildings and vehicles become, the more vulnerable we are.

Stephen Ambrose

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Where there is so much racket, there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the Negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon.

Sojourner Truth

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I'm always praying for a part that would be something that I could be really proud of, in which I could use the gifts God gave me in a positive way.

Siobhan Fallon Hogan

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I hope I am a psychotherapist's dream. I've spent enough hours in therapy.

Sia

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We don't need to allow any more Nancy Pelosies to wind up in Congress.

Michael Steele

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