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I don't think dressing has anything to do with numbers. I know people of 30 who act like they're 97, and I have a few old-bag friends who are very hip.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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I'm delighted that gay people now want to get married and I say why not! It's nobody's business and I would happily give my blessing.
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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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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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Style means you have a real curiosity about yourself and then you express it. Having style is not copying somebody else.
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I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the more flamboyant, imaginative things. I lusted after costume jewelry. My husband was a very lucky man.
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It's not easy to know who you are and it's very painful and takes a lot of time and that is why a lot of people don't want to put in the effort.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen – everything in between makes me itch.
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You have to look in the mirror and see yourself. If it feels good, then I know it's for me. I don't dress to be stared at, I dress for myself.
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If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.
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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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The world is always full of promise.
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I'm not going to be a rebel and offend anybody, but I'm not going to live in somebody else's image.
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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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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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Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.
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I don't believe in rules. It's different for everybody. Everyone has to make their own decision and find out what's comfortable for them.
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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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I had to be my own person and live my own life if I wanted to be happy, and I just did it.
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Everything that's happened to me, nothing's been planned. I've never had a business plan. I just kind of fell into it, and I liked it, and I took a chance. I took a lot of chances in my life.
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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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