Pankaj Mishra Quotes
I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.Pankaj Mishra
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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I like to do everything myself - I'm very hands-on with my housekeeping, my children, travelling, how I do things.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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Delaying and withholding tactics, red herrings, partial and doubtful outcomes are stock in trade for fiction writers, especially crime writers.
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The music industry's very laid back while I'm very, very aggressive.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Boy, I'll tell you, when the Rams drafted me No. 1, it surprised me. I was walking on air for days.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Every DC or Marvel property is constantly getting reinvented because we love these characters. They're so iconic, and we want to watch them over and over again.
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It will appear evident upon attentive consideration that equality of intellectual and physical advantages is the only sure foundation of liberty, and that such equality may best, and perhaps only, be obtained by a union of interests and cooperation in labor.
Frances Wright -
It's amazing how a competitive nature can turn a negative into something positive.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Madchen Amick
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If you do something that's not pigeonholed, it gets thrown into the 'We don't know what this is' bin, and so let's not talk about it so much.
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What did I do to deserve this?
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Like Alice Walker and Toni Morrison, I try to balance reality with how we'd like the world to be.
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It's not a small world! It's a painful, ugly world!
Harry Edward Kane -
I believe there ought to be school choice, so that parents can choose within the public school system.
William Herbert Gray III -
I am often struck by the anxious inferiority many well-educated British people display towards the U.S., particularly Londoners dazzled by New York, when many postcolonials are accustomed to regarding Britain's old imperial cosmopolis as the true capital of the western world.
Pankaj Mishra