Pico Iyer Quotes
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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.
Madonna Breakfast Club -
In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
Zhu Zhu -
Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma Gandhi -
When someone was hitting me, or like sexually molesting me, it just seemed normal to continue to do that to myself.
Tatum O'Neal -
Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.
Gary Johnson -
I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.
Balthasar Klossowski de Rola
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
Zinedine Zidane -
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
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.
Dana Carvey -
If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
Gary Busey -
I am not afraid to go to jail.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Give the peasants neither life nor death.
Ieyasu Tokugawa
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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.
Sally Phillips -
So, it looks like we rebuild the village and blow it apart a few more times.
Vic Morrow -
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.
Hari Kunzru -
Under so much pressure and the situation that I was in, that was the personality that came across with me.
LaToya London -
Regional gaming across the United States has had serious challenges, not just in Cleveland or Cincinnati, but also across the United States.
Dan Gilbert -
I couldn't care less about business.
Manolo Blahnik
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All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.
Ramana Maharshi -
We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissable, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his activity, to submit his decision to the needs and the taste of his century?
Friedrich Schiller -
Map out your future, but do it in pencil.
Jon Bon Jovi -
After the second day, he's got it mastered, too. He's just a guy who takes a lot of pride in what we ask him to do.
Bret Bielema -
I can still jump on the Tube. I don't want that to change.
Lisa Snowdon -
A writer is a palmist, reading the lines of the planet.
Pico Iyer