Pankaj Mishra Quotes
As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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What happens also is that a lot of those people and reporters who vote for Hall of Famers, some of the people who were around when Ray Guy was around, are deceased. And some of the reporters don't remember Ray Guy. He should have been in the Hall of Fame 15 years ago.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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I live with my mum and my nan. I think I will leave eventually, but not at the moment when they look after me so well. If you came to my house, they'd make you eat something.
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A Lawyer will do anything to win a case, sometimes he will even tell the truth.
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Rupert Murdoch is the most dangerous man in the world.
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I always had a dream to play for India but I never let it put pressure on me.
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Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead.
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The fan support was the greatest. It's everything.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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The speed of change makes you wonder what will become of architecture.
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Every action is seen to fall into one of three main categories, guarding, hitting, or moving. Here, then, are the elements of combat, whether in war or pugilism.
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You have to embrace the people that love you because you're making a difference in people's lives, and you're making them feel something with your music. That, I think, is the biggest key: to stay grounded and focused and stay true to who you are as a person.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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I think I will always stay involved in tennis and would like to give back by helping out young players. I have done a little commentary and may one day enjoy doing that again.
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Every citizen has the real right to receive general education and professional training at no cost, something that the United States has not been able to ensure for all its inhabitants.
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Rock n' roll is dying because people became OK with Nickelback being the biggest band in the world.
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I fell in love with science and decided to continue for my Ph.D., and from there on, I was a scientist.
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I'm not trying to be in your face and take a picture that is like a journalistic kind of image. I got interested in a kind of complicated, compiled, visual field.
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The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.
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It's like everybody is shooting something, and everybody's a filmmaker; everybody can shoot a cat video and post it. So the big thing now is - for people that have talent and have something to say, and are creative, and are capable of making something good - is how do they get attention to it?
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With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
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As in the early 20th century, the elemental forces of globalisation have unravelled broad solidarities and loyalties.
