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.Pico Iyer
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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.
Mahershala Ali -
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.
Taylor Swift -
Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
Sam Snead -
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.
Zelda Fitzgerald -
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.
Tamra Davis -
Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.
Mae West
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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.
Patrice Leconte -
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.
Palmer Luckey -
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.
Felix Dennis -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
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.
Mahershala Ali -
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.
Fleur East
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
Sally Mann -
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman -
By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
Orison Swett Marden -
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.
Larry Hogan -
Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
Becky G
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Learning an imposed method seemed not in my nature
Yehudi Menuhin -
There's so much else to do in the world. To just be interested in doing films would limit my life.
Natalie Portman -
I love stories about misfits and underdogs.
Elizabeth Banks -
I'm opinionated because I care so much about the music and the songs.
Zac Brown Band -
With random urinalysis, there's a clear choice - either get high or go to jail.
Brian Baird -
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.
Pico Iyer