Pico Iyer Quotes
'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.Pico Iyer
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Irv Kupcinet -
I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
Magnus Larsson -
Berlusconi is a genius in communication. Otherwise, he would never have become so rich.
Umberto Eco -
I don't know how people recognize me.
Laura Prepon -
Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
Zoe Saldana -
Look, there ought to be politics in politics.
Karl Rove
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
Hans Jonas -
I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.
Kate McKinnon -
Millions of people gave their lives fighting fascism and imperialism, but Pearl Harbor was the event that forever changed the course of human history.
Sam Graves -
Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.
Hans Rosling -
I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
Jackie Kennedy -
Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
Gary Hamel
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There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
Hannah Arendt -
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
Og Mandino -
There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.
Ted Chiang -
Look at someone like Steve Jobs. His look wasn't very special - black turtleneck and jeans - but he had style. He looked the same, and you knew it was him when you saw him. Plus, he was a very smart person, which is also very attractive. His style was simple, not distracting, and very strong.
Carine Roitfeld -
People only watch my shows for me, and those shows have remained evergreen long after the guests are forgotten.
Barry Humphries -
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
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I have an increasingly strong feeling that all of us, myself included, too many times make too many statements and don't ask enough questions.
Mark Kurlansky -
I think, what I would communicate to people, if you are really keen in helping the world, you could spend so much quality time in terms of coaching, learning, providing great energy to the social entrepreneurs.
Jean-Philippe Courtois -
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
W. Somerset Maugham -
If you can create an environment where people are invited to do their best work and the best ideas always win, then the project itself will win.
Jennifer Carpenter -
I've learned over the years that the best way to develop as an artist is to make things. So I tell young artists it's not enough to be an actor anymore, you have to be a filmmaker/writer/director. There's no excuse for waiting around for a job. You have to be active and make things.
Liane Balaban -
'Globalization' has become the great tag phrase, but when we talk about it, it's nearly always in terms of the global marketplace or communications technology - either data or goods that are whizzing around. We forget that people are whizzing around more and more. On them, it takes a toll.
Pico Iyer