Pico Iyer Quotes

There are literally Internet rescue camps in China and Korea to deal with children that are addicted. Internet disorder is maybe going to count as a psychiatric disorder in a couple of years.

Pico Iyer

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

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Theatre was my first love. I can't take the theatre out of me. And I wouldn't want to. To me, it's home.

Jim Parsons

LoveHomeMeTheatreWantFirst

The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.

Michael Heizer

WorkBuildingsGenuineSizeImagine

Our perception of celebrities in Hollywood is not the reality. The reality of our lives is so much like everyone else's life. We have family members we love, everyone gets up in the morning, they have three meals a day and they go about their business.

Sissy Spacek

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I feel that if a person has problems communicating the very least he can do is to shut up.

Tom Lehrer

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Victorian racehorse owners frequently named their horses after murderers. That was so astonishing. Can you imagine the equivalent today, with a horse named, say, Boston Strangler, running in the Kentucky Derby? This was a new discovery. The Victorians didn't think it was odd, so no one ever mentioned it particularly.

Judith Flanders

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So all of the music had reference, or is inspired by something of the dharma that I've come in contact with.

Joseph Jarman

MusicContactInspiredSomethingHad

I've always liked the effect of having somebody in there who hadn't the faintest idea what was going on.

Derek Bailey

AlwaysGoingIdeaSomebodyEffect

Yeah, I associate every sound with a color and vice versa.

Dev Hynes

ColorSoundViceEveryYeahVersa

It's incredibly important to understand history... when it comes to inequality.

Clint Smith

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I don't go see big, silly movies. I like small things about regular folks, you know?

Bobby Cannavale

Small ThingsSmallSillyYouKnow

I decided, very early on, just to accept life unconditionally; I never expected it to do anything special for me, yet I seemed to accomplish far more than I had ever hoped. Most of the time it just happened to me without my ever seeking it.

Audrey Hepburn

LifeTimeMeAccomplishEarlyNever

I only travel with one suitcase - Mulberry does an incredible one. I always check it; the TSA restrictions are so tricky.

Poppy Delevingne

TravelAlwaysCheckOnlyIncredible

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