Pico Iyer Quotes
I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm known for having crazy shoes. I have a total Napoleon complex - I'm only 5'4", and every heel I have is four inches or more.
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At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
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It didn't scare me to be vulnerable because I think that's when you get something great.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
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My father is actually a quarry man - he deals in stone. He also at one point had a lot of sheep, he owned a sheep farm, but primarily the family business was in stone.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.
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The future ain't what it used to be.
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Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
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Life without Liberty is far worse than death.
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When you catch other people with a sound like yours, that's when you know you did something.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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I'm just not very funny.
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'As the World Turns' was such a great experience and such a great school for me. It was better than any class I could have ever taken.
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We have a lot we need to improve on, ... We've got a long ways to go. Certainly, I don't think anybody here feels like we're satisfied with our passing game or our rushing game right now, so I think you try to do a good job of analyzing it. But certainly our work, and what we're concentrating on, are ways to get more production. I would say across the board we need to step it up. I don't think anyone is satisfied with what we're doing.
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My parents divorced, and I didn't have much of a daddy growing up.
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My whole concept in life is if you're not using it, you should give it to somebody else so they can use it.
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I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.
