Pico Iyer Quotes
Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
Pico Iyer
Quotes to Explore
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When you make a living from something, it changes your relationship with it.
Jack Gleeson
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It is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
Randa Abdel-Fattah
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
Mandy Moore
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The Negro was freed and turned loose as a penniless, landless, naked, ignorant laborer. Ninety-nine per cent were field hands and servants of the lowest class.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
Samuel Butler
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I knew I wanted to be an artist, but I didn't really know what it was I wanted to say.
Kara Walker
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If you got a dope girl, there's going to be people that want her. But I don't know, I've always kept my 'A-game' on point. I just make a point to make sure the woman that I'm with is taken care of. You got to keep it new, so I go out of my way to make them feel special.
Lance Gross
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Please be assured that as we move along through the implementation of health insurance reform, making sure that we find efficiencies within the existing system, is foremost on the President's mind.
Valerie Jarrett
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Sorrow lies like a heartbeat behind everything I have written.
P. L. Travers
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If someone has a really great boyfriend or career, I think, it's cool that happens.
Taylor Swift
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Be strong, believe in freedom and in God, love yourself, understand your sexuality, have a sense of humor, masturbate, don't judge people by their religion, color or sexual habits, love life and your family.
Madonna
Breakfast Club
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My attitudes have changed, but somebody would have to read all my books to find out how they have.
Irwin Shaw
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The bayonet has always been the weapon of the brave and the chief tool of victory.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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Solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society can ill do without.
John Stuart Mill
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There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening, that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique.
Martha Graham
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Of woman as a real human being, with sexual needs and sexual responsibilities, morality has often known nothing.
Havelock Ellis
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Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?
Bjorn Lomborg
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Almost everybody I know has this sense of overdosing on information and getting dizzy living at post-human speeds.
Pico Iyer
