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've always been into sports and yoga and running. I actually study a martial arts self-defense program called Krav Maga. I can't quite say it's easy, but it's fun for me and I love to do it.
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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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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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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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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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The best decision I ever made, period, was to get into the music business.
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I prefer home school because you learn more by yourself than when you're around other people because you get distracted.
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Football doesn't build character. It eliminates the weak ones.
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Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
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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.
