Pico Iyer Quotes
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
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I've been married over 50 years of my life.
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.
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Bond? It is a bit like saying, 'Do you want to play Superman?' Anyone would dream of it. It's one of the most coveted roles in film. I'd be honoured. But I don't know if it will actually happen. I'm just happy with the idea of being associated with it. It's nice there's a lot of good will.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Suspicion and doubt lead to animosity and hatred.
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Because pandemics almost always begin with the transmission of an animal microbe to a human, it's work that takes me all around the globe - from rain forest hunting camps of central Africa to wild animal markets of east Asia.
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The fundamental thing about my personality is that I think I'm an imposter.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Climate change is obviously happening and there is obviously a man-made contribution.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.
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I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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Obedience to the word in humility of mind never confuses.
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Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.
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Denim on denim was my go-to look for most of my high school years.
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Every minute I'm on the set, it's play time for me. I feel like I'm on the beach!
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The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
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I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
