Pico Iyer Quotes

For more and more of us, home has really less to do with a piece of soil than, you could say, with a piece of soul. If somebody suddenly asks me, 'Where's your home?' I think about my sweetheart or my closest friends or the songs that travel with me wherever I happen to be.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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I love religion.

Jessica Simpson

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The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.

Max de Pree

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The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

Michael Gove

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Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

John Redwood

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We can't all be good at everything. This is partly the logic behind having a team in the first place, so each role can be filled with the person best suited for that role and together, every job and every strength is covered.

Simon Sinek

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When we were in school, we were told that Stalin was a madman who got control of Europe, which teaches you nothing.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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You can get a bit 'head in the clouds' - well, I do - and full of myself if I stick in front of the camera for too long. I forget there is hard work that needs to be done.

Tom Goodman-Hill

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The lives of those such as Charles Darwin and Albert Einstein are plainly of interest in their own right, as well as for the light they shed on the way these great scientists worked. But are 'routine' scientists as fascinating as their science? Here I have my doubts.

Martin Rees

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In the 1950s, we had all these B-grade science-fiction movies. The point was to scare the public and get them to buy popcorn. No attempt was made to create movies that were somewhat inherent to the truth.

Michio Kaku

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Isn't it time you came out and told the world what you believe?

Jason Alexander

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If stability and efficiency required that there existed markets that extended infinitely far into the future - and these markets clearly did not exist - what assurance do we have of the stability and efficiency of the capitalist system?

Joseph Stiglitz

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I have three brothers and a sister. One older and three younger. My oldest brother Danny plays Hyde on 'That '70s Show,' and my younger brother Jordan and my sister Allanah act as well, so we're a bit of an acting family.

Christopher Masterson

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