Pankaj Mishra Quotes
As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.

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Why does it appear that interested readers so often attribute flaws to 'the press' rather than taking particular issue with particular reports?
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When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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'I Will Follow' is a celebration of life. Sometimes when you lose something, you understand its value more than when you had it. The same is true for life.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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One of the biggest misconceptions that has been thrown out there is the fact that I started on Vine.
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We've never been anti-Semitic.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living.
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I like things going on in my life. I don't want to be on a beach somewhere just relaxing.
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As a kid, I dreamed of being a pop star, a glamorous woman and traveling the world. And I've done that all my life.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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Oddly, a search for 'jeggings' in my email inbox shows that my first exposure to the phenomenon came from - wait for it - Mike Allen of 'Politico,' who helpfully explained the concept on December 20, 2009.
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Micropayments are great if you use them for a product or service with certain properties. It must be one where you can get away with usage-based pricing, and where there is a strong rationale for making it cheap, yet not free.
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I was very good in school, and my parents really would have really liked me to go to college. Instead, I went on this random journey to go be a professional wrestler.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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We're not one thing, as human beings, so any character that is written uni-dimensional, that's just a shallow character with shallow writing and shallow acting.
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Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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For never, never, wicked man was wise.
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As a young man in South Africa at the beginning of the twentieth century, Gandhi developed satyagraha, a mode of political activism based upon moral persuasion, while mobilizing South Africa's small Indian minority against racial discrimination.