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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Television is more of a business. You can't take as many risks, because there's so many channels now, and the advertising's dropping.
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I've always been a fan of Fran Drescher!
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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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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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There are always going to be critics... and I have always had a rule: no matter how good the commentary is, or how bad the commentary is, it's more important that you do what you think is right.
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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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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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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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I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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Dogs who live in each other's company are calm and pragmatic, never showing the desperate need to make known their needs and feelings or to communicate their observations, as some hysterical dogs who know only the company of our species are likely to do.
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If liberty with law is fire on the hearth, liberty without law is fire on the floor.
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Sometimes you feel sad to be left out of a big debate.
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I must always, always have a box of Extra chewing gum in my bag because I have developed a terrible cheek-chewing compulsion. It's not only uncomfortable, but I look really weird when I'm doing it, and chewing gum is the only way I can stop myself.
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A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs.
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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.
