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.

  

  Patrick M. Byrne
  • Use
  • Anybody
  • Blockchain

• 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.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Time
  • Movie
  • House

• I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • Great
  • Car
  • Drive

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
  • Exercise

• If you play good cricket, a lot of bad things get hidden.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Cricket

• The simpler I keep things, the better I play.

  

  Nancy Lopez
  • Play
  • Things
  • Better

• We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Good
  • Nice
  • Dark

• 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.

  

  Jackie Earle Haley
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Acting

• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Job
  • Sun
  • Did

• I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.

  

  L. J. Smith
  • Want
  • Know
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Balaji S. Srinivasan
  • World
  • Believe
  • Long

• 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.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I was born in England, but then I lived in Calgary, Saudi Arabia, Cyprus, India, Vancouver, London, Toronto, and now L.A.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • Born
  • London
  • India

• I crave attention and adventure.

  

  Eddie Cibrian
  • Attention
  • Adventure
  • Crave

• I saw the pilot for 'Girls' about six months before it aired.

  

  Adam Driver
  • saw
  • Six
  • Pilot

• I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Try

• The world has become a larger place. The universe has been expanding, and Perl's been expanding along with the universe.

  

  Larry Wall
  • World
  • Universe
  • Place

• This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Die
  • Cancer
  • Said

• If I can keep losing myself - and finding parts of myself - in other people's writing and direction, then that's all I can really ask for. That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

  

  Andrew Garfield
  • People
  • Writing

• People go to the front page of BuzzFeed partly because they've seen a bunch of things in their stream, and they're like, 'Oh, I like this site. Why don't I go to the source?' I think that happens. But also people are going to look for something to share.

  

  Jonah Peretti
  • People
  • Why

• Why not touch things that we hate and turn them upside down and inside out?

  

  Alber Elbaz
  • Why
  • Hate

• One of my first favorite books was 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would just go up to people and say, 'I can sing 'The 12 Days of Christmas,' and I would make them sit through me reciting it, and I'd go all the way, each time. I've always hooked into lyrics.

  

  Lin-Manuel Miranda
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• The map of the world is always changing; sometimes it happens overnight. All it takes is the blink of an eye, the squeeze of a trigger, a sudden gust of wind. Wake up and your life is perched on a precipice; fall asleep, it swallows you whole.

  

  Anderson Cooper
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• Like teenagers, we appear to have gone from knowing nothing about the world to knowing too much all but overnight.

  

  Pico Iyer
  • World