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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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But the days passed, and expectations gave way to resignation—the hopeless resignation of the old, sometimes miscalled apathy.
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The self-made man that some people believe is a myth? It could be, because you do it on the backs of other people.
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Incidentally, part of a photographer’s gift should be with people. You can do some wonderful work if you know how to make people understand what you’re doing and feel all right about it, and you can do terrible work if you put them on the defense, which they all are at the beginning. You’ve got to take them off their defensive attitude and make them participate.
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Yes, I'm proud to be a liberal.
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I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.
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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.
