Pico Iyer Quotes
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.
Pico Iyer
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I try to live my life in a holistic way, show that all of it intersects because I'm coming from the same place. Now, at the core of it, I'm just trying to connect and be there, so I'm trying to be there for my family, my wife, my kids, my friends.
Forest Whitaker
I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
Tamsin Egerton
My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.
Natalie Portman
I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
Zaha Hadid
A good opening and a good ending make for a good film provide they come close together.
Federico Fellini
I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
Irene Rosenfeld
Nature hates calculators.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The reality is that it's just the nature of the game. It's the nature of playing offensive line, defensive line, and linebackers, where your responsibilities as a player involve those little hits that are going to accumulate. You can't take that out of the game.
Chris Borland
When you celebrate a new idea, it immediately comes through the way you hold yourself and the clothes you wear.
Neri Oxman
Women respond to comfort and a sense of humor. I was always able to make them laugh, so that helps a lot.
Peter Dinklage
Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen.
Kerry Washington
People are always asking me where I come from, and they're expecting me to say India, and they're absolutely right insofar as 100 percent of my blood and ancestry does come from India. Except, I've never lived one day of my life there. I can't speak even one word of its more than 22,000 dialects.
Pico Iyer
