Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I'm quite an odd little part of the Venn diagram. I'm not a movie star and beautiful in that way. I do an odd thing that's funny and sad, and my face and my old body can take that.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
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It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
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It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.
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I think God gave us senses of humor, and we should use them.
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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In our fast-forward culture, we have lost the art of eating well. Food is often little more than fuel to pour down the hatch while doing other stuff - surfing the Web, driving, walking along the street. Dining al desko is now the norm in many workplaces. All of this speed takes a toll. Obesity, eating disorders and poor nutrition are rife.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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A cap on carbon is important because it sets a specific goal for reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Most of us were probably less than immaculately honest as teenagers; it's practically encoded into adolescence that you savor your secrets, dress in disguise, carve out some space for experiments and accidents and all the combustible lab work of becoming who you are.
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I'll always be a fan of coach Harbaugh. Not too sure about Michigan.
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My sister and I cooked a lot together; my sister was a very healthy vegetarian. She was always a real good teacher for me about organics, recycling, composting -whenever you hear me talk about it, it's usually because of my sister's influence.
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My best friend and I go to bed at 11 o'clock. We have such old lady schedules. Everyone's always like, 'Let's go out!' And we're always like, 'No, we don't want to.' They call us the grandmas. L.A. can get really old really quickly if you waste your life away in a club all night.
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In this life, who did you love,beneath the drifting ashes,beneath the sheeting banks of airthat barrenly bore our rations?
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There is a precarious balance to the life of a building. It has nothing to do with its age, or the beauty of its construction. A damaged building can always be repaired if it still has life, but a dead building will never be whole again.
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Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.
