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.Pico Iyer
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.
Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam -
'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?'
Ian Anthony Dale -
I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
Larry Wilcox -
Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
Kate McKinnon -
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.
Van Morrison -
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.
Cam Newton
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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.
Ted Cruz -
If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
Yotam Ottolenghi -
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
Edsger Dijkstra -
Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
Laura Robson -
There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
Daniel Drew
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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.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
Inga Cadranel -
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
Jack Bruce Cream -
I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
Maluma -
Men are every bit as gendered as women.
Jackson Katz -
If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
Usher
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I've always said that with kids' TV that people get stuck in it from drama school but that's not fair because I know myself that when you go in creatively, kids are so much more open to ideas. You're so much freer to mess about and try things.
Johnny Vegas -
Toni: Well... straight couples get respect when they marry. Maybe we need to make some kind of symbolic affirmation of our commitment to one another!Clarice: You mean...Toni: Yes! Let's open a joint checking account!Clarice: Oh, darling! But this is so sudden!
Alison Bechdel -
My days are gone a-wandering.
Francois Villon -
It is only in the light of the inescapable fact of death that a person can adequately engage and enter upon the mysterious fact of life.
John Hines -
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.
Pico Iyer