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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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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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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Death is not the opposite of life, but a part of it.
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I know that the world I converse with in the city and in the farms, is not the world I think. I observe that difference, and shall observe it. One day I shall know the value and law of this discrepance. But I have not found that much was gained by manipular attempts to realize the world of thought.
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I love the element of surprise, throwing people off of what they think they know about what I can do and who I am. I just want to keep doing that.
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This is a personal movie that I knew I had to come here to make,
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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.
