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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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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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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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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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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Always say 'yes' to the present moment... Surrender to what is. Say 'yes' to life - and see how life starts suddenly to start working for you rather than against you.
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I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.
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I will have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering, which is not the opposite of forgetting, but rather its lining. We do not remember. We rewrite memory much as history is rewritten. How can one remember thirst?
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The Catholic Church [with Pope John Paul II] has lost its shepherd. The world has lost a champion of human freedom.
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I think it's insane, absolutely insane for a person to have one of the highest and most important jobs in the entire world to be saying that he has to be at his children's soccer practice.
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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.
