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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Even if the songs are at times painful - 'cause some of the songs are not all roses and balloons; some of them dig into deep things that I've been going through - there's a joy that I think people feel from my music and, hopefully, from my performance because I am so in love with doing what I do.
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I'm far from being a homosexual.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.
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Great wars can only be fought by great powers.
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There's a vacancy now that no president can fill, no power on Earth can fill, ... Others will step in and fill in his shoes excellently. But no one can replace the unique presence that was Peter.
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A sociopath doesn't warm up their environment, doesn't make it cozy. They don't have to; when they're not performing, when they're not manipulating, when they're all alone, there's nothing.
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My dominant feeling every day is one of great ignorance.
