Pankaj Mishra Quotes

To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

Pankaj Mishra

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• What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.

  

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• Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.

  

  Jack Youngblood
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• I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

  

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• If you come to a negotiation table saying you have the final truth, that you know nothing but the truth and that is final, you will get nothing.

  

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• Now that I have kids, I don't want to do so many daredevily things anymore.

  

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  • Kids
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• I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.

  

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• I don't look at myself as suffering.

  

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• There is nothing more boring than doing singing exercises.

  

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  • Singing
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• No matter what his crimes were, Alton Sterling did not deserve to be executed for them. Look, guys, the punishment for resisting arrest shouldn't be death. The punishment for selling bootleg CDs shouldn't be death. The punishment for having a gun in an open-carry state shouldn't be death. The punishment for being a black man shouldn't be death.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Death
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  • Black

• If I could gain 1,000 pounds and be healthy, I would love to do that.

  

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• I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.

  

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  • People
  • Up
  • Working Class

• That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.

  

  Jack Coleman
  • Things
  • Loved
  • Spider-Man

• I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

  

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  • Time
  • Truth
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• A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.

  

  Sam Graves
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• I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.

  

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  • Dark
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• Do something because you really want to do it. If you're doing it just for the goal and don't enjoy the path, then I think you're cheating yourself.

  

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  • Path
  • Cheating

• The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.

  

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• Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done Brando' is lying.

  

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• Our voice resonates with life. Because this is so, it can touch the lives of others. The caring and compassion imbued in your voice finds passage to the listener's soul, striking his or her heart and causing it to sing out; the human voice summons something profound from deep within, and can even compel a person into action.

  

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  • Life
  • Heart
  • Soul

• For all the popularity of spiritual advisers in South Korea, it still shocks to see the leaders of huge public companies relying on fortune-tellers. A shaman may advise a struggling executive to move a building's front entrance, tapping the widespread pungsu belief that your luck depends on the direction of your house.

  

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• We get paid a lot of money to do what we do, and there's a lot of people who are dependent upon that car running well and us getting everything out of it as a team. So I'm very, very loyal to my team and the company.

  

  Kevin Harvick
  • People
  • Money
  • Team

• I got my first leopard print coat when I was 15. I nearly got beat up, but I was happy with it.

  

  Imelda May
  • Up
  • Happy
  • First

• To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Money
  • May
  • Democracy