Pico Iyer Quotes

It's only by taking myself away from clutter and distraction that I can begin to hear something out of earshot and recall that listening is much more invigorating than giving voice to all the thoughts and prejudices that anyway keep me company twenty-four hours a day.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Friendship and sentiment and the giving of one's words are very important.

Michael Cimino

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Usually when people see me, they see me as more of the soft-spoken one rather than being the witty, smart-tongued character.

Amy Acker

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Funerals are a pagan rite. There's not any doubt about it.

Steve Earle

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Hillary Clinton had scheduled an interview while I was at the height of the Weinstein reporting, and her folks got in touch and said, 'We hear you're working on a big story,' sounded very concerned, and tried to cancel the interview.

Ronan Farrow

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Most people I know I think agree and even many theists agree with this. We don't want government involved.

Michael Newdow

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I'm that person who takes a makeup wipe at the end of the night to take all my makeup off. I don't sleep in makeup; I think it's so bad.

Ariel Winter

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The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

Anthony Browne

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I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Seung Sahn

MindMeditationTryAlwaysMeans

When we do things that are really hard, we can achieve great things - and that has worked as a great model for me.

Scott Kelly

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If we grow up in these communities where we have gangs, well, what do you think we're going to belong to? That's what happened to me and what's still happening to hundreds of thousands of other individuals.

Richard Cabral

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I've been in a situation where I was after the money.

Morris Chestnut

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I believe we have to nip Ebola in the bud before it spreads through Africa and to other countries.

Mark Zuckerberg

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