Pico Iyer Quotes
The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
Quotes to Explore
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You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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When I was living in Mexico and writing a book called 'Aztec,' I had to make a deliberate effort to ignore a lot of the 'typically Mexican landscape' around me - banana and citrus groves, roses and carnations, burros and toros - because they did not exist in Mexico in the 15th century, the time of my book.
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I've started doing my coaching badges, I'd like to be a manager one day.
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At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Eventually you just have to realize that you're living for an audience of one. I'm not here for anyone else's approval.
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I never saw 'Titanic' as a springboard for bigger films or bigger pay cheques. I knew it could have been that, but I knew it would have destroyed me.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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If 'Deadwood' had gone on another two years, I wouldn't have got as many movies made.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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For economist the real world is often a special case.
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You know, my mum's always encouraged me and never made my gender an issue, I guess. She brought me up to believe in equality, as opposed to feminism or sexism – so it just meant that my gender was not relevant to what I was capable of achieving.
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We don't have to look back at da Vinci's work and Albert Einstein's work and Mozart's work. We're actually living in the time period that David Lynch is creating his art. We're so lucky.
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There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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To strive for the common prosperity and happiness of all nations, as well as the security and wellbeing of our subjects, is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by our imperial ancestors and which lies close to our heart.
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I loved gymnastics. I was eager to compete. I was hungry to go out there and be the best in the world, and I had that determination.
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There might be very primitive life in our solar system - single-cell animals, that sort of thing. We may know the answer to that in five or ten years. There is very likely to be life in other solar systems, in planets around other stars. But we won't know about that for a long time.
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I could spend several hours on YouTube every night. It's all there. I just don't have enough time.
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One of my favorite things to make is homemade sushi. I know how to make the rolls and it's really fun to do.
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The first time I stepped onto the rooftop of the Potala Palace in Lhasa in 1985, I felt, as never before or since, as if I was stepping onto the rooftop of my being: onto some dimension of consciousness that I'd never visited before.
