Pankaj Mishra Quotes
If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
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Bin Laden was born filthy rich and died in a rich man's house, which he had painstakingly built to the highest specifications.
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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I hate horror movies! I avoid them like the plague. I don't like getting scared.
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Since Auschwitz, we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima, we know what is at stake.
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When I'm not writing, I read loads of fiction, but I've been writing quite constantly lately so I've been reading a lot of nonfiction - philosophy, religion, science, history, social or cultural studies.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Live performances always feel like such a moment with all of the costumes and theatrics.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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This is a strange game.
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Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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We can power our economy without despoiling our wild places.
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The entertainment industry is vast and is a reflection of the society we live in.
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As I've traveled around the country, it has surprised me how many times I've heard people in small businesses use that word 'saved.' I believe many small businesses would not have had access to credit and would not have survived without the $50 billion that we were able to put into the market.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I think of myself as a producer who tries to bring the best out of everyone, whether that be an artist, songwriter or a publicist.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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Are you eating it? Or is it eating you?
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I haven't done much press for many reasons, but mostly because it's not an interesting dialogue about work that's been done. It's turned into something else. It's become this ridiculous other thing.
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If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.
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Tim Berners-Lee, the 44-year-old English physicist who created the World Wide Web, is precisely the kind of hero that a relatively simple invention with profound social and economic consequences should lay claim to. He is not just creative but democratic, diplomatic, polite and generous with credit and praise.
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Mass media wants bright lights. Mass media wants crazy clothes.
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If you think of India in the 1980s, there weren't many writers in English around. The ones that were there, Amitav Ghosh or Vikram Seth, were living abroad or publishing from abroad.
