Pankaj Mishra Quotes
As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
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I appreciate cooperation with Turkey on many issues. We are grateful for the support we receive for E.U. and NATO integration for Montenegro.
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I want to see more Asians on TV. I want to see more faces like mine on TV.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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Singing, writing songs, is kind of my biggest fear, but it's the thing I feel I need to conquer.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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What I don't like to hear in music is something has not been thought through: that a sound is just there randomly. I want to make sure that every single little noise that's in my song is there because it's supposed to be there.
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I played college basketball in West Virginia for two years, and then I graduated from NYU with a sports management degree because I realized the NBA's not going to happen.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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The most important factors for a long life, I think, are partly in the genes; number two is lifestyle, which includes healthy diet and regular exercise. I walk, run and swim every day. However, I think too much exercise is also unhealthy because of over-stress; sometimes people who exercise too many hours per day die early.
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Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.
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My tennis skills are okay.
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And the central assertion of his philosophy is that this inner realm is the 'spiritual world' and that once man has learned to enter this realm, he realizes that it is not a mere imaginative reflection of the external world, but a world that possesses its own independent reality.
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On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.
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As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.
