Pankaj Mishra Quotes
The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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I was in love with my wife and she was in love with me. We got along wonderfully.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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CGI has fully ruined car crashes. Because how can you be impressed with them now? When you watch them in the '70s, it was real cars, real metal, real blasts. They're really doing it and risking their lives. But I knew CGI was gonna start taking over.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I've been playing concerts for many years, and it's still as exciting as it was the first time. I hope that shows when I'm performing.
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I went to Iraq in 2004 because I believe in doing my duty, not because I agreed with the war.
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I listened to it last night for the first time since we started this project. I went out to my car and put it in and went to an empty parking lot and just listened and read the little pamphlet that came with it. After two or three songs I burst into tears.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
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Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
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I am lactose intolerant, and I always thought it was really funny how people who are lactose intolerant continue to eat dairy, because they like it so much. And I find it not acceptable.
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A movie like House of the Dead with around $7 million budget or Alone in the Dark with around $16 million budget are much easier to make profit than the typical $50 million major motion picture.
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I was famous from birth.
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Cricket is a self-sustaining industry; but corporates need to realise that other sports don't have that luxury. This is the time when they need to invest, and keep the faith. Every sport has the potential to create world champions. Imagine India as a country full of world champions. Why imagine? Let's just make it happen.
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Bad art was as good as good art. Grammar and spelling were no longer important. To be clean was no better than to be filthy. Good manners were no better than bad. Family life was derided as an outdated bourgeois concept. Criminals deserved as much sympathy as their victims. Many homes and classrooms became disorderly - if there was neither right nor wrong there could be no basis for punishment or reward. Violence and soft pornography became accepted in the media. Thus was sown the wind, and we are now reaping the whirlwind.
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The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.
