Pico Iyer Quotes
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Pico Iyer
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Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.
Karen Salmansohn
I believe the old boys' network is a powerful one. No one gives up power and privilege willingly, do they?
Quentin Bryce
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W. Somerset Maugham
Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.
W. Clement Stone
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
I love helping friends, and I like to think I am a good listener and supportive. I'm also just kind of nosy, so it would satisfy my need to know other people's stories.
Rachel Platten
The power of Facebook is not only in the vast size of the connected audience, but also in the quality of the social ties and interactions that occur within the network. The Facebook social graph fuels our mantra 'Try it for free', 'Share it if you like it', 'Buy it if you love it.'
David Perry
There's always going to be a fight between mainstream and underground because the mainstream is a very small bubble, and the underground scene is a very small bubble, and they both see themselves as secret societies. But I never saw it that way. I always thought music was open to all things.
Dawn Angeliqué Richard
In fiction, you are not limited by real facts. You can manipulate reality; you can invent without being disloyal to the essence of history.
Mario Vargas Llosa
Since pre-Emancipation, black 'females' have had to fight for the whites-only privilege of being deemed 'ladies': cultured, educated, sexually desirable in a socially respected way. Michelle Obama has managed to get all this without yielding her right to be smart and strong-willed.
Margo Jefferson
I almost never give interviews. It's not because I want to play hard to get. It's just that I never seem to have anything interesting to say.
Laurie Metcalf
The power of affinity lies in its mystery: the way it stands outside everything logical; you step into a crowded room and see a stranger, and somehow you feel you know her better than you know the friends you came with.
Pico Iyer