Pico Iyer Quotes

One of the happier ironies of recent history is that even as Tibet is being wiped off the map in Tibet itself, here it is in California, in Switzerland, in Japan. All over the world, Tibetan Buddhism is now part of the neighborhood. In 1968, there were two Tibetan Buddhist centers in the West. By 2000, there were 40 in New York alone.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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With a strong domestic economy, low national unemployment at 5 percent, and increasing retail sales, the picture should look rosy. But one look at the trade deficit changes all of that.

Jo Ann Emerson

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Many an optimist has become rich by buying out a pessimist.

Robert G. Allen

RichBecomeOptimistOutBuying

I'm sure, to many people, my life is not that exciting, but to me every day is an adventure.

Angela Kinsey

LifeDayAdventurePeopleMeSure

There are not a lot of black men in the pop business.

Troy Carter

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Teleportation would be the best because I live on airplanes. It would be super handy to be able to teleport around.

Tom Holland

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I get so nervous, I get belly pains before I go on stage.

Rita Ora

GoNervousStagePainsGetBelly

When you're a black man in a hoodie, all of a sudden you're a criminal. That's something we shouldn't have to deal with, but we do. It's a double standard. We can't cover our head when it's cold and raining because God forbid someone sees us and puts our life in danger.

Mike Colter

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I wear women's leggings under my clothes, but no lingerie.

Dennis Rodman

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I was in my senior year of high school when I read 'Notes From Underground' by Dostoyevsky, and it was an exhilarating discovery. I hadn't known up until that moment that fiction could be like that. Fiction could say these things, could be unseemly, could be unsettling and distressing in that particular way, that immediate and urgent way.

Claire Messud

MomentSchoolHigh SchoolYearSay

As an artist, the more experience, the better the creation. I'm a very positive person.

Psy

PositiveExperienceBetterArtist

When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

Rick Astley

LifeDaughterLightMeDoingEnough

For liberals, generally speaking, honoring procedures - means - is the core of what being 'principled' means. For conservatives, fighting for the right outcome - ends - even at the expense of procedural nicety, is what being 'principled' means.

Rick Perlstein

FightingRightBeingCoreOutcome

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