Pico Iyer Quotes

I'm very happy to be a foreigner in Japan, and I can't think of a more wonderful place to live, but at the same time, I would never want to be Japanese, because they are subject to stresses that I am not.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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It's a lot of fun to fight.

Jim Mattis

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Once I'm comfortable with someone, I'm not reserved. I'm a compulsive confessor.

Jennifer Connelly

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Women want to get to know Sarah Palin. And they want to meet her family.

Andrew Breitbart

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We all agree that pessimism is a mark of superior intellect.

John Kenneth Galbraith

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Autos for years seemed to give us freedom and independence, but when they create traffic jams and other problems in the parks, the experience of serenity in nature that visitors expect is seriously diminished, if not destroyed.

Michael Frome

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Beauty attracts us men; but if, like an armed magnet it is pointed, beside, with gold and silver, it attracts with tenfold power.

Jean Paul

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I figured somebody wrote a story who had a typewriter and I thought that movies were made by the cowboys and that they just said, 'Okay, you fall off the horse this time.'

John Sayles

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French is the language that turns dirt into romance.

Stephen King

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I'm sick of environmentalism.

Tracey Ullman

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'Civil War' was such a whirlwind, and I didn't really know what was going on. I was thrown into the deep end.

Tom Holland

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People in power need to control others in order to maintain power. One of the ways to do that is to take that which is threatening and demonize it.

Jasmine Guy

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I am undoubtedly one of the more, if not the most, privileged undocumented immigrants in America. And for us at Define American, which is this culture campaign group that I founded with some friends, culture trumps politics.

Jose Antonio Vargas

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