Pico Iyer Quotes
The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
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The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I never wear matching socks. It's kind of a thing that I have!
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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I think the best thing I can hope to achieve is to educate, or make aware, as many people as possible on how the little things they do every day really do affect our environment, and how easy it is to fix some of those things.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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One who imitates what is bad always goes beyond his model; while one who imitates what is good always comes up short of it.
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My father and my mother and my sister and I have always voted Republican, always.
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Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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Power might feel tasty and good in the moment, but it will never be satisfying, never fill you up. Yep, no matter how much power you get, you will always feel empty. You just keep wanting more and more power.
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I've always hated being hemmed in or seeing anybody being hemmed in. Even when I was the smallest child, I couldn't bear being told I couldn't drink at a so-called white drinking fountain.
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One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.
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There was a time when young people respected learning and literature and now they don't.
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The most insoluble problems are those which by their very nature can have no space within them for dreams.
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The average American teenager sends or receives 75 text messages a day, though one girl in Sacramento managed to handle an average of 10,000 every 24 hours for a month.
