Pico Iyer Quotes
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.
Pico Iyer
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
Fidel Castro
Evolution happens in nature and in individuals. I want to participate actively in its happening within me.
Victoria Moran
I think of Twitter as the place where I go to have a great conversation when I can't have one locally, which seems to be all the time, and the more time that I spend on Twitter, the more I sort of curate this incredible group of very intelligent people that I just get to know purely through the quality of their thoughts.
Naval Ravikant
Every country can be defined through their food, their music and their language. That's the soul of a country.
Quincy Jones
When you're under stress as a human being, you behave oddly and your relationships with people become strained.
Viggo Mortensen
I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
Paramahansa Yogananda
Also, I have found that I really like to work in English. It's very strange because it's exactly the opposite of what I thought it would be like.
Olivier Martinez
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
Karisma Kapoor
I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.
Rachel Bilson
Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Oprah Winfrey
I always say to my agents, you go through one of these big kind of movies, everyone makes money, but like, I said, 'I'm the one who's gotta go make it, and if I don't have my heart in it, and it's like a love affair, I'm not going to do a good job. Then, and I don't want to just get paid. I just, I don't want to do that.'
Gavin O'Connor
If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities.
Maya Angelou
It might be hard to believe, but as difficult as cancer was, in some ways it was good for me.
Jon Lester
Ensuring ports are dredged is essential to securing America's place in global trade.
Ander Crenshaw
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
Joel Coen
God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.
Albert Benjamin Simpson
The poverty one still sees in America today is more shocking to me than anything I have seen in Ethiopia or Calcutta or Manila, and has made me, as someone living in a society of great wealth and someone who's never had to worry about the next meal, think seriously about what universal responsibility really means.
Pico Iyer
