Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
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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.
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The greatest cunning is to have none at all.
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'Cool' is detached and emotionally cool. My instinct is to battle anything that seems overly cool.
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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.
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Our new pro-growth tax policy will be like a shot of adrenaline into the heart of the Kansas economy.
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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.
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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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It was a huge shock. I've never had hair that short in my life! I think the rest of the cast and crew were mourning my haircut more than I was! But after a while, I felt liberated, I learned to embrace it.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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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.
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Tenderness is a virtue.
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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.
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I don't envy young actors.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The Law of God reaches into every area of life, and it brings about incredible blessing and incredible freedom.
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It's not easy to have the job of president. It's not easy to run for it. And it's not a job for the feint of heart.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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All of my life I have always had the urge to do things better than anybody else.
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Corporate nationalism to me is a little bit like what would have happened if Hitler had won. It's scary stuff. It's totalitarianism in a different from, under a different flavour.
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'Big business' was a bad phrase in India. To be accused of being big business was the worst accusation you could make. All that has gone now. The whole mindset has changed.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
