Pico Iyer Quotes

The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

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• Maybe now that we have the same sponsor in Remington we can spend some time together outdoors.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Time
  • Together
  • Now

• I would love to be a role model.

  

  Gabby Douglas
  • Love
  • Model
  • Role Model

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• In one week, I went from being a girl who owed a guy thousands of dollars - my manager Anthony was paying for my outfits, paying for my food; I was sleeping in his parents' basement - to taking meetings with every major label in America. The next morning, I had a record deal and wrote him a cheque to pay back all that money.

  

  Halsey
  • Money
  • America
  • Guy

• Acting is merely the art of keeping a large group of people from coughing.

  

  Ralph Richardson
  • People
  • Art
  • Acting

• Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • You
  • Boy
  • Accomplishments

• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Day
  • Protection

• It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Strong
  • Acting
  • Weak

• Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.

  

  Zoe Saldana
  • Animal
  • Strange
  • Very

• I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • American
  • Football
  • Baseball

• That's actually how my parents met. They were pen pals. My mom was in the Philippines and my father was in the States, and they wrote to each other. He went out to meet her, and they wed not too long after.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Long
  • Father
  • Parents

• I think television has betrayed the meaning of democratic speech, adding visual chaos to the confusion of voices. What role does silence have in all this noise?

  

  Federico Fellini
  • Silence
  • Chaos
  • Meaning

• I just went to an acting agency one day and just said, 'I would like to act. Would you take me?' And they took me.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Day
  • Acting
  • Said

• I've never played a Dane in a movie. I've had offers to be in Danish movies, including for some good directors, but I either had a job at the time or, when I was available, the movie just didn't happen. Hopefully someday I'll do one.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Time
  • Good
  • Job

• Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.

  

  Jack LaLanne
  • Energy
  • Change
  • Focus

• 'Punk rock' is a word used by dilettantes and heartless manipulators about music that takes up the energies, the bodies, the hearts, the souls, the time and the minds of young men who give everything they have to it.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Music

• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• My extreme characters are in a state of rebellion or who are being ostracized or being misunderstood, or misfits or trying to fit in and fighting for their rights to love, live, and co-exist. They sort of mirror my own demons.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Characters
  • Rights
  • State

• The first stage in a technology's advance is that it'll fall below a critical price. After it falls below a critical price, it will tend, if it's successful, to rise above a critical mass, a penetration.

  

  Chris Anderson
  • Technology
  • Fall

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • People
  • Why
  • Fight

• We want to engage in ever closer synergy with Latin American and Caribbean partners.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • American
  • Want
  • Latin

• The Soviet Union's termination, which brought to an end the bipolar world, ushered in an era of U.S. hegemony. Hegemony, however, should not be confused with omnipotence. Hegemony is not omnipotence but is certainly preponderance.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • End
  • Confused

• The one thing perhaps that technology hasn't always given us is a sense of how to make the wisest use of technology.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • Technology