Pankaj Mishra Quotes
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.Pankaj Mishra
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Editorial photography has to be energetic and visually competitive.
Sam Abell -
I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
Zubin Mehta -
All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
Ian Holm -
Greetings and death to our enemies.
Dan Aykroyd -
Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
Maajid Nawaz -
I drink tons of water. It always sounds like the lamest thing, but there's a reason you keep hearing this over and over again. It really works.
Rachelle Lefevre
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
Kat Edmonson -
I'm a great bum, and I'm a pretty good director.
Daniel Espinosa -
I've always been interested in strange foods, coming from all different places.
Mads Mikkelsen -
Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.
Carine Roitfeld -
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar -
Women just love to shop.
Natalie Massenet
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I draw and play the piano badly. But when I'm doing those things, I'm concentrating so hard there's no room for worry. I find that onstage, too.
Eddie Redmayne -
I'm not a huge fan of my work.
Tea Leoni -
Governor Rauner talks about what he might get done or what he tried to get done. It's past time for all his talk. It's time for action. It's what I've been doing my whole life.
J. B. Pritzker -
Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?
Garrett Camp -
So far, Vancouver is my favorite relocation city. It feels like home. Parts of it remind me of the east coast. It's very clean. The food is great. And the people are lovely. Not that I didn't love working in other glamorous locations like Downey, Detroit, Cleveland or Bulgaria... but, damn, it is fun to be Canadian.
Rachel Nichols -
Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it, you are lost.
Samuel Butler
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For me photography is an excuse to be nosy about things I want to know about.
David Hurn -
I do stay busy. I like new challenges.
Kirk Kerkorian -
As a four-year-old, my mother told me I was climbing the fence, jumping off and calling myself an 'eppyplane'... I bought books on aeroplanes, I followed everything in the newspapers about aeroplanes. Amy Johnson flew to Australia in 1930 - why couldn't I do something like that?
Nancy Bird Walton -
Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
Raf Simons -
What is it about our society where anyone who does not have Asperger's gets talked out of their heterodox ideas?
Peter Thiel -
An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
Pankaj Mishra