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Pico Iyer Quotes

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Live Car World Feet Bicycle Feel

If you listen to The Browns, it's a very pretty sound. It was sibling harmony, a sound that was very pleasing. I've never heard anybody that could come close to that particular sound. It couldn't be imitated.

Sibling You Harmony Listen Never

I always think I don't have any songs, I don't have anything I'm working on, and I get in the studio and realize there are 20 things I'm thinking about. It's just kind of second nature.

Nature Think Thinking Kind Anything

Boxing is the ultimate challenge. There's nothing that can compare to testing yourself the way you do every time you step in the ring. On the downside, you meet a lot of really bad people in boxing, at all stages of your career.

Sugar Ray Leonard

Time Challenge Yourself Step People

I grew up seeing my sister in the studio. I would go to recording sessions and take notes.

Solange Knowles

Sister Seeing Go Up Take Notes

I grew up in the home of a political cartoonist, so I was a junkie for politics.

Home Politics Political Up Grew

Nature's music is never over; her silences are pauses, not conclusions.

Nature Music Never Over Conclusions

I've often wondered if the trade-off for growing up in the relative newness and freshness of the West Coast was befuddlement when it comes to historical preservation. We don't have many old things, and we don't really know what to do with the few that are around when our default response is to compost or field burn.

Growing Up Growing Know Burn Old Up

It doesn't give me any satisfaction to think that my concerns will be validated by my grandchildren's generation. I would love to be wrong in everything. My grandchildren are my stake in the near future, and it's my great hope that they might one day say, 'Grandpa was part of a great movement that helped to turn things around.'

Love Future Hope Great Day Me

It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.

Christian Lous Lange

Think Place Matter More Take Left

Kids born into certain ZIP codes will most likely have certain educational outcomes. And we've got to end that. If we end that, we explode economic development.

End Born Will Development Economic

When I was young, I would just write poems into textbooks in class. Everybody needs that outlet. For me, I think it's less about learning about myself and more about just needing to get things out sometimes.

Learning Myself Me Think Young More

I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.

Life Think Facts Ability Emotional

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