Pankaj Mishra Quotes
The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
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Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
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I mean, sometimes when you do a show or a campaign with a designer, you get along with them really well and you become friends. And then, sometimes, people are just a bit... weird.
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We have to surmount the difficulties that face us and work steadfastly for the happiness and prosperity of our country.
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My health is fine.
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Every group has its idiosyncrasies, but at a certain point we all are human.
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Although children are only 24 percent of the population, they're 100 percent of our future and we cannot afford to provide any child with a substandard education.
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No one really knows who I am or where I came from in America, and there's something quite nice about that.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
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I don't campaign for the end of the aristocracy or the upper classes; I don't really want to destroy anything at all. I just want more plurality.
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On stage, you can use your emotions. It's the place where you can channel them. They have a purpose.
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There were a lot of offers before 'Vicky Donor,' but I wanted to wait for the right opportunity.
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I'm a real romantic.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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Nancy Lopez has always been a role model of mine... so to have the opportunity to play for her and spend time with her has been amazing.
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Try, try, try, and keep on trying is the rule that must be followed to become an expert in anything.
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My family is more a sports family, and I figure skated for a very long time, so movement and how I relate to movement is very integral to my process.
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When I first came down stairs, for two or three minutes I went down cellar to the water closet.
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All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I'd worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: 'Don't hide these things from me. I'd rather you ask me these things straight out, and I'll answer all your questions.'
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I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees.
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We had a pretty good time together, when she wasn't trying to kill me!
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But I know God has big stuff planned that ultimately doesn't have anything to do with me.
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The Arab Spring showed that people are not going to wait for an American president to make good on his big talk about democracy and human rights; they are going to fight for those rights themselves and overthrow pro-American dictators who stand in their way.
