Pankaj Mishra Quotes
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If al Qaeda or any other enemy of our country manages to create a situation or explode a bomb or murder or incapacitate large numbers of our people, we cannot wait for 7 weeks of a special election in order to deal with that.
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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I'm always afraid of failing. I have to quiet that fear if I'm going to get up in the morning.
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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 like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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For years, I have repeatedly said that Maryland taxpayers were being overtaxed and overcharged.
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Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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With any character I have played, there's infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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It is in revolutionary periods that the culmination of previous trends and the beginning of new ones appear.
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The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
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'What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies.'
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Edge is such a great guy.
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Talent is a feeling that you want to play.
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Pray because you have a Father, not because it quietens you, and give Him time to answer.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
