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I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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I love a nice hot pink. I like thick lipstick, otherwise it doesn't look like you're wearing any.
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When the fun goes out of getting dressed, you might as well be dead.
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I just never want to completely grow up.
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I think if women put some more of the time and money they put on their heads in their heads, they’d be better off.
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In my view you can't go to the future if you haven't come from the past.
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Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.
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I don't pay attention to things like the talent for style. I don't meditate on things like that. I just do whatever I think I should do and go with it, and if people like it, then I'm very happy about it. And if not, I always figure it's their problem not mine.
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You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!
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To find out who you are is like putting yourself on a psychiatric couch, but you have nobody to help you. Really it isn't easy. I was talking with my nephew this morning and he gave me one of the best quotes I've heard in years 'Personal style is curiosity about oneself.'
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I'm making a lot of noise as I walk.
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To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
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You can't just say, I'm gonna have style. You have to work at it. It's intuitive some people have it, and some people can work on it all day long, and it will never happen.
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I think that if you have to work very hard at dressing up and it makes you nervous or uptight, then you won't look very well because you won't be comfortable. I think it's much better to be comfortable and happy than well dressed.
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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess. The key to style is learning who you are, which takes years. There’s no how-to road map to style. It’s about self-expression and, above all, attitude.
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When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
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My mother worshipped at the altar of the accessory.
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Technologically I live in the 17th century. I have a very simple cell phone. I say I live through the kindness of strangers, because if they see something on the Net they type it out and send it to me.
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The world is always full of promise.
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There are so many empty headed people in the fashion business who take themselves way too seriously and I don't think I am at all like one of them. To me there are lots more important things in the world than just having the right shoes!
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You're not pretty, and you'll never be pretty. But, it doesn't matter. You have something much better. You have style.
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