Pico Iyer Quotes
I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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The best advice that was given to me was that I had to be 10 times smarter, braver and more polite to be equal. So I did.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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I always like to leave art and music open to interpretation.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.
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It's just different in the music world. You come more with an entourage.
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I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.
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I don't often know exactly what's coming next, and that makes it more fun. And you know, for me, this entire genre is all about that; it's all about having fun and getting away from the mundane world for just a little while.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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It is impossible to disregard such an important medium as television. We should know how to use it, learn to work in it and express new values in it.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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If you've got cool nails, you wake up and you're like, 'Oh, I'm happy now.'
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Since I grew up, I have never deliberately used any technique at all other than the physical shaping of my tale so that it more or less resembles what has been thought of as a novel for these last two hundred years.
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Well Ice H20 is my company that I plan to take to the next level with new artists, books, movies and so forth. It's more like a multimedia brand that I want to take to the next level and put some talented people on.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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At no point during his ordeal did Nero think of himself as 72% alive and 28% dead.
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Liberals hate America, they hate flag-wavers, they hate abortion opponents, they hate all religions except Islam, post 9/11. Even Islamic terrorists don't hate America like liberals do. They don't have the energy. If they had that much energy, they'd have indoor plumbing by now.
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.
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It's just so unfortunate that, as we get adjusted to this global economy, that the U.S. is even thinking about building walls.
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Life's a rodeo and all you have to do is stay in the saddle.
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I write - though perhaps it sounds pretentious to say so - to make a clearing in the wilderness, to find out what I care about and what exactly to make of it.
