Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

Pankaj Mishra

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• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

  

  Jack Black
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• The greatest cunning is to have none at all.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Greatest
  • Cunning
  • None

• 'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Cool
  • Battle
  • Instinct

• The thing I'm scared of most is not fulfilling my work. There's so much anxiety around trying to get a movie made that you don't really get to be afraid of anything else.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Movie

• Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Heart
  • Growth
  • Economy

• I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Believe
  • Journey
  • Computers

• That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Die
  • Wish
  • I Wish

• GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • World
  • Power

• I ride my bike for transportation a great deal - occasionally I ride it for fun. But I also have a generator bike that's hooked up to my solar battery pack, so if I ride 15 minutes hard on my bike, that's enough energy to toast toast, or power my computer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • Up
  • Great
  • Power

• Tenderness is a virtue.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Virtue
  • Tenderness

• Authors need to decide if they want to keep forever to themselves, or share forever with a publisher who takes over half the cover price.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Want
  • Forever
  • Share

• I don't envy young actors.

  

  Edd Byrnes
  • Young
  • Envy
  • Young Actors

• Thank God I have the seeing eye, that is to say, as I lie in bed I can walk step by step on the fells and rough land seeing every stone and flower and patch of bog and cotton pass where my old legs will never take me again.

  

  Beatrix Potter
  • God
  • Flower
  • Thank God

• My mum wants me to get married - and have children, of course. She's met Gaga; we've been dating a while. We're in a committed relationship, and I'm really happy in my relationship. I'm a very lucky guy. As far as having more of a domestic life and settling down into my relationship, we have to see what happens.

  

  Taylor Kinney
  • Life
  • Children
  • She

• I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Learn
  • Child
  • Mistakes

• I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Night
  • Single

• The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Life
  • God
  • Freedom

• I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • Work
  • Running
  • Week

• The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Marriage

• Seventy-five years ago a young woman kept a diary in which she wrote some of her innermost thoughts, many of the daily happenings, and all of the weather. This story is the fictionalized version of the real diary. The thoughts more or less trite pedantic have been curtailed, the happenings (for obvious reasons) sometimes changed, but the weather remains practically intact. ...So step out of the yellowed diary, Linnie Colsworth,.... Recreate yourself from the fading ink of it's pages and help us understand something of the stanch heart that beat under those hard little stays, bidding you defy convention three-quarters of a century ago.

  

  Bess Streeter Aldrich
  • Heart
  • Thoughts
  • Story

• Art photography, although long since legitimized by all the conventional discourses of fine art, seems destined perpetually to recapitulate all the rituals of the arriviste. Inasmuch as one of those rituals consists of the establishment of suitable ancestry, a search for distinguished bloodlines, it inevitably happens that photographic history and criticism are more concern with notions of tradition and continuity than with those of rupture and change.

  

  Abigail Solomon-Godeau
  • Criticism
  • Tradition
  • Rituals

• It's not quite right to be sitting outside India and to be judging what is happening in India.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Judging
  • India
  • Sitting

• I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • India
  • Ahead

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism