Pico Iyer Quotes

In the past, I've visited remote places - North Korea, Ethiopia, Easter Island - partly as a way to visit remote states of mind: remote parts of myself that I wouldn't ordinarily explore.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all.

John Hope Franklin

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As long as you are a trusted source of news, the distribution channel doesn't matter as much. If we have to move to tablets or phones, that's fine.

Steve Capus

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There were a lot of kids from Puerto Rico at my high school in Florida; people always assumed I was Puerto Rican. Even now in California, I get talked to on the street in Spanish constantly!

Torrey DeVitto

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I had a strong, really good upbringing, not puritanical.

Tom Selleck

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Fusion has not been proven to be safe, and it is too costly.

Masatoshi Koshiba

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This life is a gift, and to reject that gift or abuse that gift is not human and not worthy of us.

Michael Moore

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The French, who love their dogs, sometimes eat their horses. The Spanish, who love their horses, sometimes eat their cows. The Indians, who love their cows, sometimes eat their dogs.

Jonathan Safran Foer

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It was fantastic to work in Cornwall partly because my family live there so I was able to do lots of visiting and eat lots of cake. They live all over Cornwall and all over Devon.

Dawn French

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You play shows all over the country and hope that radio gets a chance to get out to see you, but that doesn't always happen like that.

Cole Swindell

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I made my first album, and I guess it wasn't a fluke, because now I'm on my 16th.

Bonnie Raitt

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Apart from work, whatever pending things I have to do, I do it in Murshidabad.

Arijit Singh

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I think maybe short stories operate in some of the same ways that poems do. They frame single or small moments and elevate those. They give you insight into more minor dramas maybe, dramas between smaller groups of people.

Antonya Nelson

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