Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
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It is absolutely impossible to settle the debts to pensioners, teachers, and others. The country hasn't got enough money to do so.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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Why did I elope with my husband after knowing him for only four months? I wish I could show people the picture of the two of us that night and have them feel what I felt. But it's just a picture. It can only capture how things looked, not how they felt.
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Good design should be honest.
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One of the things I love about acting is that I can enter into these other people's lives. But going back to being me at the end of the day is very important, too. That process of remembering who I am.
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I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.
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The more of what our music does violates the premise of its format that it's presented in, the better. So, hearing our music in the supermarket, a Muzak version, is great.
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Dealing with the government does not mean you have to give a bribe.
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The child is pronounced pretty. I think it quite otherwise.
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The health industry, the fitness industry, was really starting to pick up. This was around the mid 80's.
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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The connection that readers have to 'Rookie' has only meant more and more to me as I get older.
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You have to master not only the art of listening to your head, you must also master listening to your heart and listening to your gut.
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Small ideas won't help Illinois' future.
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When you don't know how to cook, you just say, 'I need something quick,' and then you fry something up. Now that I cook, I think, 'Do I want to have fried fish, baked fish, or grilled fish?'
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After 9/11, new security measures not only added longer lines and earlier check-ins, but took away our privilege of carrying knitting needles or our favorite moisturizer on board with us. Although we want to be safe when we fly, in some ways it all just adds to the misery of our experience.
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I wanted as little formal linguistic theory as I could get by with. I wanted the basic linguistic training to do a translation of the New Testament.
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I'm fascinated by political enthusiasm.
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Though blessed with many able administrators, the British found India just too large and diverse to handle. Many of their decisions stoked Hindu-Muslim tensions, imposing sharp new religious-political identities on Indians.
