Pico Iyer Quotes
Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
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No, but it's not because I'm getting older that I'm trying to accelerate. But something very curious is happening: The older I get, the more ideas I'm getting.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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I have had that same experience where there are several people who have come up in my life at the right time and have made critical contributions to how I see the world and how I see myself.
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I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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We're the first not-white family to ever live in the governor's mansion. My son-in-law is Puerto Rican. I have a beautiful little granddaughter who is half Korean and half Latina. I'm the only white guy in the house.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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It isn't always simple when America discovers you at 11 years old. Suddenly, it's not just homework that you're responsible for. Your name becomes a hashtag, and if you're lucky, you might even get invited on 'Ellen.'
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You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
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I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.
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It really wasn't until I realized that country music had a whole underworld of songwriters that I dug into it.
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People who are interested in the arts and theater are such a minority.
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Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.
