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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All British people have plain names, and that works pretty well over there.
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Somehow, people just like to look at me.
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Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.
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I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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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.
