Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
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I'm more like an animalistic rock chick.
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I said it several times: a blow you are getting from a friend is still a blow, but more painful.
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Presidents tend to tinker, you know, and mess everything up.
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I'm so bad at baseball, I can't even hit now.
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My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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We can help show data on how much the kids can improve when their home life changes a little bit.
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You kind of forget he's Peter Jackson in a way because he's so normal; he's lovely. It's like having a friend direct you, except it's Peter Jackson.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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If most American cities are about the consumption of culture, Los Angeles and New York are about the production of culture - not only national culture but global culture.
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I was actually pretty shy in school. My defense mechanism was to be the class clown. I remember getting into a lot of trouble for being disruptive, and I was brought in front of the headteacher, who said: 'What's going to happen to you; what are you going to do when you grow up?' and I said: 'Well, I'm obviously going to be a comedian.'
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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Nancy Reagan was a perfectionist, and I am not.
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Well, I like chocolate stuff; I don't like any of that other gross sugary candy.
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No, you never get any fun out of the things you haven't done.
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I enjoy seeing new places.
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No matter what as an artist that's always what you want to do, you want to connect to the audience, you want to be able to send whatever message it is that you're singing about, you want to be able to convey that - and not make them feel - you want them to feel it, you want them to feel what you feel.
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I actually think 'Sex and the City' helped share how complicated it all is, to be a wife, a mother, and working, and a sexual being.
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My parents never referenced Ethiopia that much, largely because of the circumstances under which we left. We left during a time of political upheaval, and there was a lot of loss that came with that, so my parents were reluctant to talk about those things. So I had, by and large, an American childhood.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I don't know if you're alive or dead. Can you on earth be sought, Or only when the sunsets fade Be mourned serenely in my thought?
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Supporters of tough voter ID laws are not afraid of vote fraud - they are afraid of democracy.
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
