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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That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.
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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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I work out six days a week. Usually 45 minutes of running, then swimming and weightlifting.
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We have been playing to a 70-30 black to white audience. And we are just doing what should come next, trying to attract a larger house, trying to reach an audience that's half black and white.
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I don't watch a lot of television.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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The only way I'll ever run a marathon is if I'm involved in the administration.
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You can't shake hands with a closed fist.
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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For me, the real thing is make, serve and list in India. Which means we need manufacturing, we need services, and we need financial markets.
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Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.
