Pico Iyer Quotes
We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you force your kids to pay attention to what's going on, or do you let them live their lives outside of it? My hope is that my child is a strong activist. That would make me most proud.
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'Murder in the First' takes 12 episodes to explore the crime and the issues surrounding it, all in the hopes of answering the question, 'How did we get to this point?'
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.
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I'm not against the NSA. I'm not against spying; I'm not against looking at phone records.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I think that, as a white person stepping into doing any sort of anti-systematic-racism type of work, asking yourself, 'What is your intention?' needs to happen on a consistent basis. Check yourself. Check yourself. Check yourself, like, constantly.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Men are every bit as gendered as women.
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It's been a frustrating summer especially as I've done the hard work getting into the 30s but I know I've got to play patiently and straight.
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After graduation, I was floundering in L.A., doing stand-up comedy and working in a shoe store in the Valley.
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I found the brick-making process fascinating - how, after being burnt, the brick would come out strong. I liked to sit on the stack of bricks and look as far as I could. I'd do the same at a hillock near my school - just sit on top at leisure and enjoy the feeling of being on top of the world.
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Their plan is to return the entire world - not just the Middle East - to the days of the caliphate and either convert all of us so-called infidels into born-again Islamic believers or kill us.
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The reason I loved working at Boeing was because I loved the idea of air travel as a way of bringing people and cultures together - because when we come together as people and cultures, we realize that we are not that different after all, and when we realize that we are not that different after all, the world becomes a better place.
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We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
