Pico Iyer Quotes
Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
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t0 is blockchain-agnostic so, ultimately, we can use anybody's blockchain.
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A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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We believe the most significant long-term application of bitcoin may be reducing the upfront cost of internet-connected devices to make them more accessible for the developing world.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.
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I crave attention and adventure.
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I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Did Romeo and Juliet have a … 'relationship'? The term 'relationship' … betokens a chaste egalitarianism leveling different ranks and degrees of attachment.
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When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.
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The most important advice you can give anyone about to appear on TV is incredibly prosaic - be yourself.
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'Billy On The Street' has no doubt always been about the people we talk to. That being said, it thrills me that the show really has a dedicated following in the comedy world.
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Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.
