Pico Iyer Quotes

Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

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• Anonymity breeds meanness.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Anonymity
  • Meanness
  • Breeds

• It really doesn't matter to me whether it's defensive end or linebacker. I just want to play the game of football. I've been working on linebacker drills since I got out to Fischer Sports in Phoenix.

  

  Gaines Adams
  • Game
  • Football
  • Sports

• The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Power
  • Never
  • Twitter

• For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear Weapons

• My dream date is a tall, dark, handsome, blue eyed man with a bubble butt who will whisk me away to Paris in a hot air balloon to wine me, dine me and.

  

  Karen McDougal
  • Dream
  • Man
  • Dark

• My dad would pick me up every other Friday at 6 o'clock and drop me off every Sunday at 6 o'clock, and I remember those last couple hours, like around 4 o'clock, my dad would get kind of sad because he knew that he was about to not see me for two more weeks.

  

  RaeLynn
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Dad

• I think of the prisoners on 'Orange Is the New Black,' a lot of times, as uplifting.

  

  Samira Wiley
  • Think
  • Black
  • Uplifting

• We've seen what happens when it serves a president's interest to flaunt his faith - which is almost inevitably does, since every poll affirms that Americans want their leader to submit to some higher power.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Power
  • Faith
  • Leader

• When you're shooting a TV show, there's not a lot of time to build character.

  

  Candice Patton
  • Time
  • Character
  • You

• Somebody tell the damn players to start playing like old school.

  

  Karl Malone
  • School
  • Start
  • Old

• Don't try to be like somebody else. You'll be miserable. You need to be yourself, and don't ever get a big head.

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Yourself
  • Try
  • Be Yourself

• I eat the same breakfast and lunch every day, both at my desk. I employ no time-saving tricks at all.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Day
  • Same

• The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • People
  • Love
  • Boy

• My music is almost like vomit! It's a horrible way to put it, but I feel it, I say it, and I doubt myself all the time throughout my whole life, but when it comes to music, I just don't. I don't doubt myself.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Life
  • Time
  • Music

• My music is a personal thing, and I feel like if I talk too much about the songs, or if there's too much of my personal life out there, it ruins it.

  

  Washed Out
  • Life
  • Music
  • Too Much

• I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Religion

• When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Trying
  • School
  • Together

• I always said that if I could just find a guy who could chop wood and had a nice smile, it wouldn't bother me if he was a thug or an aristocrat, as long as he was a good guy. And I've ended up with an educated thug.

  

  Sade Adu
  • Good
  • Guy
  • Nice

• Do you want an interesting job? Yes. Do you want a balanced life? Yes. And to make a contribution as well? Of course.

  

  Pierre Nanterme
  • Life
  • Job
  • Interesting

• I was seven years old. What do you know when you’re seven years old? All my life, or so I thought, we’d been in the city of Alexandria, in the Street of the Carpenters, with the other Galileans, and sooner or later we were going home.

  

  Anne Rice
  • Life
  • Home
  • City

• Beast Mode doesn't make excuses. It doesn't complain. Whatever you're doing, go out there and get it done. Keep pushing. If I have a bad game, I think about what I have to do to return to form. Figure it out, go to sleep, and wake up a new man.

  

  Matt Kemp
  • Up
  • Done
  • Bad

• Stage is definitely my home first and foremost - I still feel like I'm yet to earn my stripes on set.

  

  Shari Sebbens
  • Home
  • Stage
  • Earn

• When I left the band I said Look, I am ready to move on. I was interested in playing with some of the other people that I had bee a studio musician with.

  

  John Sebastian
  • People
  • Band
  • Bee

• Home is, in the end, not just the place where you sleep, but the place where you stand.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Home
  • Sleep