Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I think it's a natural human tendency, when you read something, you tend to read a lot of your prejudices into it. And neuroscience is like a lot of disciplines - it has fashions; things change.
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The artist is the medium between his fantasies and the rest of the world.
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I enjoy the sari. I think it's the sexiest garment ever. It shows you the right amount, it covers the right amount, it's extremely versatile, it suits every body type, it suits every face.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.
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I tend to think of stories and books as being for everyone, just with an 'entry reading age' rather than an age range.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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I think lots of actors are very nervous and shy. I know lots of them who are, and some who aren't of course.
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I think we can leave mullets back in the '80s. I'm really not a big fan of them.
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Oprah is so bright, and her intelligence is so piercing that I don't think anyone who spends a few minutes with her isn't struck by that.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.
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The reason I hate publicists is because I think if we got rid of them everything would be on equal footing.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it – in a world in which everything else is out of control.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Strange and marvelous things will happen with constant regularity as you alter your life and begin living in harmony with the laws of the universe.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.
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I look into your great brown eyes, where love and loyal homage shine, and wonder where the difference lies between your soul and mine!.
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When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
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Tenured professors are more prone than the rest of us to think that the university is the universe.
