Pico Iyer quote: "I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied."

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RICHARD WRIGHT

Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future and time future contained in time...
, ALWAYS NOW, 1997

Aye, well, I've got my garden.
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I told my Nike representative, 'Why didn't you guys use me for this?''' Williams said, laughing.
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On the interception, I was out of bounds,
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casually made his 'abort black fetuses' argument.
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I can field my position. If I start worrying about being ready for a line drive too soon that means ...
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I told him that he played a great game,'' said Falcons quarterback Michael Vick , who like Manning w...
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I was so concerned with getting the ball out of my hands and not taking the sack, that sometimes I t...
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I knew I had to throw the ball better,'' Manning said of his poor start.
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I think the reason that I have that title or that moniker is because people don't know what to expec...
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You're either ready and prepared to take on the task, or you're not,'' he said.
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I did not have one butterfly out there today,'' he said.
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Married to the Mob.
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Hello you're with Drudge.
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I don't expect Christian Fundamentalists to reach out to me. They are adamant that homosexuals are i...
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throw enough shit at the wall and some should stick?
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I'm not happy, that's all I can say about it,'' he said.
LIKE I

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought tha...
PAUL REISER

I was never someone that was attached to any party. You know, I've always been an independent pe...
NAGUIB SAWIRIS

I remember hearing in first grade, 'Oh, why does she get to skip school?' It wasn't like...
HAYDEN PANETTIERE

I could never call myself an atheist; my parents could, quite happily. I always felt like there was ...
ALEX CLARE

I grew up in a funeral home, born and raised, and everyone was always like, 'Well, what was that...
TAMARA TUNIE

I was never much bothered about moral questions like, 'How could there be a good God when there&...
RICHARD DAWKINS

I knew I could sing. That one thing I did believe in was that I could sing, but then constantly gett...
REBECCA FERGUSON

My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and thing...
MILEY CYRUS

Sometimes we want something so much that God will have us give it up so we can grow
(I CANNOT REMEMBER)

I'd been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I'd been. I knew I&...
BRYAN ADAMS

I was always confident that I knew. I never expected this.
ALFREDO STROESSNER

When I was in 'Billy,' I always knew that I wanted to do something in performing. I always k...
TOM HOLLAND

I remember playing at Old Trafford, and the way to the dugout was always nice. It was never like in ...
JOSE MOURINHO

I never wavered. I always believed that I was innocent because I knew I was innocent.
ROBERT RICHARDSON

When I spend money on myself, it's almost always on shoes and clothes. I'm addicted to shoes...
MATT KEMP

I've never been one to think it was cheating to sample this or to loop the drum part there - I&#...
JAMES MERCER

I read somewhere once that you could be whatever you wanted. As long as I could remember, I was dete...
ALAN W. LIVINGSTON

I've always loved David Letterman. There was an irreverence to his show that I remember, especia...
PAUL RUDD

I remember admiring my aunt's - my mom's sister's - fashion, which was very feminine and...
STEPHANIE SIGMAN

I've always been too hard on myself to behave like I've arrived or even to enjoy whatever su...
NICOLE SCHERZINGER

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GAYLE KING

I'm from Mt. Clemens, Michigan. It's right outside Detroit. The suburbs. I was always very h...
PAUL FEIG

I loved your world, Noah. It was a magical place, where there were stars and love, and there was hop...
DEBBIE HOWELLS

I've always had high expectations of myself. I've never felt that there was anything I could...
DAK PRESCOTT

I always had career goals. And I figured out a path I wanted to take to accomplish those goals. If t...
KATE UPTON

I was always suspicious and looking over my shoulder because that's how I was raised.
MIRANDA LAMBERT

I was always here for you,you knew you could count on me and trust me blindly, and you knew that I w...
MICHAEL HAYSSUS

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time.
JOHNNY DEPP

When I was growing up in Terrell, Texas, I felt that it was not where I was supposed to be. I knew t...
JAMIE FOXX

There are monsters among us. There always have been and there always will be. I’ve known that ever...
ROB THURMAN

I've always been conservative. I was born that way.
RALPH HALL

I always knew that I would give back. My mother and my father both believe you have to work hard and...
THOMAS KEAN, JR.

I can never be safe; I always try and go against the grain. As soon as I accomplish one thing, I jus...
BEYONCE KNOWLES

I always loved reading. I always was the spelling bee champion. I always loved words. I always wante...
BRENDA LEE

I grew up in Georgia, and I started acting in plays when I was like eight years old, and I always me...
CARRIE PRESTON

Watching 'Doctor Who' in the United States meant I was always behind the times - PBS didn...
SEANAN MCGUIRE

I see pictures of myself and I always knew that what I was feeling didn't look like that guy in ...
RICHARD AVEDON

There was a windstorm in L.A., and the morning after there was no smog, and I could see the mountain...
A. J. BUCKLEY

I'm always down to share my secrets, share my beauty tips. Most of the stuff my fans never knew ...
KYLIE JENNER

The way I was raised, family was always the most important. When I had our first daughter, Natasha, ...
CANDACE CAMERON BURE

He put down virtually a perfect jump. I was at the top. Over the loudspeakers I knew exactly what he...
JEFF BEAN

Every time I do a play, it's as if I've never done one before. I'm always confused. I al...
CRISTIN MILIOTI

I always did what I thought was interesting. I always just did what caught my fantasy. Looking like ...
RUPAUL

I remember when I was younger I always looked up to the older guys. They always made me feel comfort...
MARTIN KLIMES

And I just remember, you know, breaking into tears and feeling so empty because, as long as Elvis wa...
JACKIE DESHANNON

I knew there was something peculiar about you," she said. "And I mean that as the highest compliment...
RANSOM RIGGS

We all had jobs that were just fronts. I felt like I was in the mob. I had a job, but that wasn'...
JESSICA ST. CLAIR

I've always liked stories. I'm always reading, ever since I was a kid. I've always been ...
GARRETT DILLAHUNT

It always looked to me like she was smiling. In fact, I know she was. Lots if things smile, like a f...
ROBERT NEWTON PECK

My brother Alan - who was seven years younger than me - died from leukemia when he was 52. He never ...
BRIAN BLESSED

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it's boring. I think that's what was ...
ODED FEHR

I always figure I have this tree and there's always some green fruit that's not ready to pic...
GRAEME MURPHY

I always knew I was going to be successful in some way with films. I don't know why. I had no pa...
ROBERT OSBORNE

I never could quite do mine like every one else. I always wanted it to be unique in some way, so tha...
LUCY SILLIMAN

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had t...
ANGELINA JOLIE

I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you r...
LEO TOLSTOY

But pain may be a gift to us. Remember, after all, that pain is one of the ways we register in memor...
SUE MILLER

What I wrote... wasn't crazy... or a bullshit... or nonsense... it was what I saw!
DEYTH BANGER

It's like you always have to put on a happy face, be the phony baloney, and I'm so not that....
CHLOE SEVIGNY

I was never like, 'Oh, I really want to play Cinderella.' That's not necessarily always ...
LAURA OSNES

There was always the consolation that if I didn't like what I wrote I could throw it away or bur...
CARL SANDBURG

I remember when I was in college, people told me I couldn't play in the NBA. There's always ...
BILL CARTWRIGHT

I think there's always been hope in my songs, no matter how they've first appeared. I think ...
JAKOB DYLAN

The environment I was raised in, you had to, to survive.
MARK WAHLBERG

It's never my world up there. I always feel like that place belongs to someone else and I will alway...
CRAIG MORGAN

I was born in 1970 in Illinois, but all the life I remember I've spent in Chapel Hill, N.C.
SARAH DESSEN

I worked for Xerox for 4 years and after that I knew I was never going to be a corporate person. It ...
ROBERT KIYOSAKI

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some ...
PHILIP PULLMAN

I always was kind of on the edge of the church when I was fully in it, cos I was always asking the q...
JOHN O'DONOHUE

How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrid, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young...
OSCAR WILDE

I always feel like out of every session that I do, whether it's a record session or even a conce...
BUDDY DEFRANCO

I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I f...
DOMINIC MONAGHAN

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there -- I always suspected ...
ANDY WARHOL

Before I was shot, I always thought that I was more half-there than all-there - I always suspected t...
ANDY WARHOL

I just want to get a ring. It feels like I was always meant to play here.
EDGAR RENTERIA

I always wanted to do some sort of action film - even a superhero movie - and when 'Lucy' ca...
SARAH SNOOK

I'm blessed with the fact that I'm a fighter. I've always known life was meant to be joy...
PATTIE BOYD

The true snob never rests: there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token...
RUSSELL LYNES

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same toke...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token...
J. RUSSELL LYNES

The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token...
RUSSELL LYNES

Mariah is a beautiful and talented person, and I've had a crush on her for as long as I can reme...
NICK CANNON

I remember how, in the corporate world, I always knew there was some higher position I could attain, which meant that, like Zeno's arrow, I was guaranteed never to arrive and always to remain dissatisfied.

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