Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.Pankaj Mishra
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I have 179 children that I take care of full-time: close to 40 in Uganda and the rest in Sudan.
Sam Childers -
I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
Tamron Hall -
Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
Callie Thorne -
It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
E. L. Doctorow -
For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.
Taylor Swift -
It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
Samira Wiley
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
Nate Berkus -
I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.
Ted Turner -
Back in 1999 and 2000, a few of us... a very few of us... Douglas Clegg, Seth Godin and I... offered free electronic copies of our books in an effort to reach an audience we otherwise wouldn't have reached and to test out a new marketing concept for books. Despite the industry screaming we were crazy, it worked.
M. J. Rose -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld -
I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband -
For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.
Pam Brown
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers -
This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch -
I remember, one day, I just printed out about a hundred CVs, and I was running around London. I was going to modeling agencies, temping agencies, anything. I was so desperate.
Fleur East -
I remember 'Hannah Montana' came out, and I was so depressed, I started crying because I was like, 'I want to do that.'
Zendaya -
Power says if you are a committee chairman, your idea is good only because you have got power.
Dan Webster -
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein
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I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.
Bryan Adams -
We think you should show your flaws to fans because that's what makes them love you more.
Dinah Jane Fifth Harmony -
Families are the Nurseries of all Societies; and the First combinations of mankind.
Cotton Mather -
I get to be a teenager like every other teenager, but I have a passion and a great goal in life.
Bindi Irwin -
Thomas Friedman's 'The World is Flat' sold more copies in India than in the U.K. The market for go-getting business books or wonkish tomes by corporate moguls posing as philosopher kings has grown dramatically in modernising China and India.
Pankaj Mishra