Pico Iyer Quotes
In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.
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It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.
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The truth is that we were born to have it all. And part of our handicap as adults is that we no longer understand our potential.
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I moved to New York when I was 21 and worked between 40 and 70 hours a week. Then I invested it all. It was really just a hustle. But I was kind of raised to work like that, so to me, it seemed very normal and natural.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I feel like all the parts are seniors in high school and seventh graders, and I think I kinda skipped that awkward stage by not working those years.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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Nobody ever wants to really make someone feel bad.
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In social matters, pointless conventions are not merely the bee sting of etiquette, but the snake bite of moral order.
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I wrote 'Fight Song' as this declaration to believe in myself, and that is similar to what you are taught to believe in Girl Scouts. Building confidence. Building character. And above all else, being there for each other as a community.
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A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.
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Business and politics have a wholesome and an unwholesome interface. You have to eliminate the unwholesome interface.
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Sometimes, once a fight starts, you have to do what you have to do to win.
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It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.
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A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.
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Start-ups often die in the first 18 to 24 months because of formative mistakes, like choosing a bad co-founder or the wrong corporate entity or an inappropriate platform. Ninety percent of the companies the Founder Institute has created are alive because we've helped them avoid those mistakes.
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Deadly nightshade is the only plant I have ever been able to get to grow for me.
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'We atheists can . . . argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse'.
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In barely one generation, we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them - often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug.
