Pico Iyer Quotes
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Our concern is to heal. Our concern is to bring together.
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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After I recovered from 'Lioness', I wanted to write something about animals because I really like mythical creatures, especially dragons. At 12, I was one of those semi-recluses who did better with animals than people. Out of that, came the character, Daine, who could communicate with animals.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
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Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
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I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
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If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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I am not afraid to go to jail.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I once had a friend who did the hair for sci-fi movies, and after a particularly bad break-up I stupidly went to her salon and told her she could do anything she liked. She dyed the bottom cherry red and the top peroxide blonde.
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So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
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A moment for me that changed everything was hearing my song on the radio for the first time.
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It's good to be in on the action.
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People like bonnets. I don't think you can under-estimate that.
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A screen actor is compensated in the knowledge that millions will see his performance at one time, where only hundreds will see it on the stage.
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I went to an all-girls Catholic high school. The three things that they focused on were reading, writing, and arithmetic. My goodness, this is a novel idea in this modern society. I was really good at all three of these things. I was particularly good at math.
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A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
