"I never felt pretty. I don't feel pretty now. I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty. So I don't feel badly. And I think it worked out well, because I found that all the girls I know who got by on their looks, as time went on and they faded, they were nothing. And they were very disappointed. When you're somebody like myself, in order to get around and be attractive, you have to develop something, you have to learn something, you have to do something. So you become a bit more interesting."

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Source : "Iris Apfel’s Art of Style" by Richard Brody, www.newyorker.com. April 29, 2015.

Iris Apfel

#Girl Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Order Quotes

“Even if I weren't in Hollywood, I would feel pressure to look a certain way.”
“I think I unknowingly seek people who are better than me in the sense of strength and wisdom. It's like I've got to know and trust that you have the answers and that you can carry me if needed.”
“I can forgive but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I cannot forgive.”
“I hate imperialism. I detest colonialism. And I fear the consequences of their last bitter struggle for life. We are determined, that our nation, and the world as a whole, shall not be the play thing of one small corner of the world”
“Culture or civilization, taken in its wide ethnographic sense, is that complex whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law, custom, and any other capabilities and habits acquired by man as a member of society”

Source : Edward Burnett Tylor (2016). “Primitive Culture”, p.1, Courier Dover Publications
“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.”
“. . . And some people sing and dance.”
“There has been enough suffering in our country, there has been enough of children whose dreams die before they have a chance to grow and there has been enough of our elders who, having served their nation, are forced into indignity in their old age.”

Source : John Agyekum Kufuor (2001*). “Towards a golden age of business: selected speeches of H. E. Mr. John Agyekum Kufuor, January-December, 2001”

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