Pankaj Mishra Quotes
The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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I like 'MacNeil/Lehrer.'
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.
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People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
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I find my earliest memories covering the anachronistic features of a previous incarnation. Clear recollections came to me of a distant life, a yogi amidst the Himalayan snows. These glimpses of the past, by some dimensionless link, also afforded me a glimpse of the future.
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I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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I have a preference for film just because of the familiarity. It's what I know, and I sort of have nostalgia for it.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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I got to dress up in funny clothes and run around New Zealand with a bow and arrow for 18 months, how bad could that be?
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I think the colleges should be free to give athletes less than a full scholarship, no scholarship and more than a scholarship. And the athletes should be free to bargain.
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I've been things and seen places.
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It's always about trying to make everything go with the music, like a script. It's not like, 'Let's have a confetti gun!' If I ever have one of those, it will be because it's absolutely the right thing at the moment in the song. I can't just go get a confetti gun.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.
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I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.
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Dont you think dreams and the Internet are similar? They are both areas where the repressed conscious mind vents.
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Well, I don't look back and celebrate. I just always worry about the next one.
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If the path has been laid down, why the successive appearance of different teachers? Why would anyone reinvent the wheel, if everything were as cosy and sequential as primitive longing so easily convinces us?
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
