Pankaj Mishra Quotes
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.Pankaj Mishra
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Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.
Octavia Spencer -
When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
Ma Jian -
The leader of the market today may not necessarily be the leader tomorrow.
Ma Huateng -
I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
Barack Obama -
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
Dale Carnegie -
I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
Carine Roitfeld
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
Aaron Neville -
No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.
Barbara Ehrenreich -
When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.
Walt Disney -
It used to be that you needed a $500-million-a-year company in order to reach a worldwide audience of consumers. Now, all you need is a Steam account. That changes a whole bunch of stuff. It's kind of a boring 'gee, information processing changes a stuff' story, but it's going to have an impact on every single company.
Gabe Newell -
I secretly wanted to act. I also wanted be a toy designer and make puppets.
Kate Micucci -
You're always going to have terrorism.
Abdullah II of Jordan
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
Abraham Maslow -
I'm not pretending to be ingenuous; I know what I'm doing.
Barbara Kingsolver -
The one thing I'm absolutely obsessed with lately are gadgets! New cell phones; I walk around with three phones because I have all the new ones, and I can't choose which I prefer.
Bar Refaeli -
The restaurant chefs in Spain are breaking ground, but in terms of the everyday cooking in Spain I still hear people coming back and saying they were disappointed. I think it's because they're expecting the chef stuff.
Sally Schneider -
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
Ireland Baldwin -
Man, 2013, I would expect an album from B.o.B and a Rock EP as well. My Rock EP is like... I take pride in my work and I'm not going to do something just to say that I can do it if I ain't really passionate about doing it. I'm very passionate about my music. Sometimes I take it too seriously.
Bobby Ray Simmons Jr.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
Walter Salles -
To me, there is nothing like the excitement and unique experience of a live orchestra playing.
Carmine Coppola -
Being a father makes everything in the world make sense.
Cameron Mathison -
Not only are a voteless people a hopeless people. A non-producing people are hopeless also.
Ralph Abernathy -
The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
Pankaj Mishra