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I'd rather go to a flea market than just about anything. It's the process I like - the same with getting dressed. If I've got someplace to be, I'll spend more time getting dressed than I spent at the actual event. Sometimes. Even in my own closet, I love to dig and search and find.

From Iris Apfel

The world is not black and white; there are lots of shades of grey. There are good things and bad things in every era, and I think it's kind of very blindfolded to say one era was wonderful, as it was wonderful, but there were a lot of bad things as well.

From Iris Apfel

People say, 'You have inspired me, you've given me courage...' They've gone so far as to say, 'You've changed my life!' And I would come back and say to my husband, 'I can't understand it - what kind of poor little life did she have if I had to come and change it?'

From Iris Apfel

There's different shopping in Paris than there is at a bazaar in Istanbul, but they're all wonderful.

From Iris Apfel

I call myself a geriatric starlet.

From Iris Apfel

Self-exploration is very painful, but unless you do that, you will never know who you are and who you want to be.

From Iris Apfel

I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty, so I don't feel badly. Most of the world is not with me, but I don't care.

From Iris Apfel

Technologically, I live in the 17th century; I don't have a computer, I don't have any of that stuff. I don't look at the Internet, although I know people tell me I'm all over it. Somebody told me they Googled me, and they said I was mentioned two million times, some stupid thing... but who cares?

From Iris Apfel

You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

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I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

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