Pankaj Mishra Quotes
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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Music is my release.
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Hollywood, the business, would be just fine if someone were to destroy the Hollywood sign. The city's there is the airport - its point of entry and exit, and in some ways its identity.
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Social revolutions are never simple.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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I have great stories. I am going to write a book.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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If you don't have liberty and self-determination, you've got nothing, that's what this is what this country is built on. And this is the ultimate self-determination, when you determine how and when you're going to die when you're suffering.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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We are in favor of greater free markets.
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I've never been a rap guy, I don't really know that much about rap music, to be honest. I like it, but I think what really happened was just my music seems to work so well with rap music.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Everyone wants me to be perfect, but I am so far from perfect!
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Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.
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The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
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Stem cells have the potential to be used to treat and better understand some of the world's most deadly and disabling diseases.
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Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and the cause of gods and demons.
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There is a great demand everywhere in the world for individual mobility. People like the fact they are not on somebody else's schedule. They can come and go as they please.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
