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Pico Iyer Quotes

What I treasure most at any moment is intimacy, surprise, a sense of mystery, wit, depth and love. A handful of cherished friends offer me this, and the occasional singer or film-maker or artist. But my most reliable sources of electricity are Henry David Thoreau, Shakespeare, Melville and Emily Dickinson.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: indian
Birth: February 11, 1957

Topics

Love Moment Me Surprise Electricity

That Oscar can be a jinx... It can... damage irreparably one's relations with family, friends. It's an uneasy head that wears the crown.

Family Friends Crown Head Damage

I think the state opening of Parliament is an incredibly important occasion, and broadly speaking, the way in which it's done is an invaluable tradition.

Think Tradition Done Important Way

I'm obviously aware that people are quite focused on the economy rather than foreign policy issues, but that is something that should and can be altered as people see the nature of the threats around the world that we face.

Nature People World Face Focused

I always date younger men. For some reason that's just the way it's gone, because younger guys have always asked me out and I accept.

Jennifer Coolidge

Men Me Accept Way Reason Out

Instead of serving special interests, Congress should focus on the big picture. Globalization and technology have completely reshaped our economy in recent decades, and if we don't respond, we're putting the future of the middle class at risk.

Future Technology Focus Picture

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

Money Credit Cards Mortgage Poor

The more Zuckerberg knows about you, the more media he will be able to bring you.

Media You Will More Bring Able

I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

Eyes Judge You Know Clean Tennis

It's almost impossible to totally eliminate terrible content in a huge open network.

Impossible Open Content Terrible

If I hadn't been a fighter, I probably wouldn't have gotten the 'Rocky' roles.

Fighter Been Roles Rocky Gotten

My mother, who graduated from high school at sixteen, had no hope of affording college, so she went to work in the local post office for a dollar a day. She was doing better than her father, who earned ten cents an hour working at a nearby grain elevator.

Work Father Mother Hope Day School

Politeness is half good manners and half good lying.

Mary Wilson Little

Good Manners Lying Good Manners Half

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