Pankaj Mishra Quotes
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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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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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And I'm a pretty positive person - I don't put a lot of energy into worrying, and I'm not a person who lives in a great deal of fear.
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When I meet someone who I really admire, I enjoy nothing more than trying to connect with them and asking them about their career. I want to know who the people are behind the performances and how they relate to their performances. But it's maybe not as novel as it once was.
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I'm not signing on to direct 'Black Panther.' I think I'll just say we had different ideas about what the story would be. Marvel has a certain way of doing things, and I think they're fantastic, and a lot of people love what they do. I loved that they reached out to me.
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I have a real problem giving up that kind of control. You know, my mother helps me.
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In many respects, we really are trying to not run the Social Office like a business, but we do have a strategy. We do have a mission. We are trying to standardize certain things so that our time is not spent on, you know, picking flowers or linens, that we've got standards.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
