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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.

Iris Apfel

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Iris Apfel
Age: 103
Born: 1921
Born: August 29
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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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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.
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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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When you don't dress like everybody else, you don't have to think like everybody else.
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Given the choice, I would spend my money on accessories.
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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 think I still keep my sense of wonder, which I call childlike, not childish, childlike. I still have a vivid imagination, and I like to try a lot of new things.
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It's more important to be happy than well-dressed.
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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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Fashion you can buy, but style you possess.
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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, don't you?
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When you go to a nice restaurant, you want to be relaxed and have a drink and everything, you want to look at people who look well. You don't want to look at some slob with an open shirt and a hairy chest. At least I don't.
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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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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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If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything.
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I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event.
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First you have to know who you are. That is the most important thing, as if you don't know who you are you will either get swallowed up or you follow some unsuitable trends and just become a nonentity.
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I don't have any rules, because I would only be breaking them, so it's a waste of time
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