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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I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.
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With what we give, we make a life.
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And the invention of transformations of certain figures has become the most important in musical composition.
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We've chosen the path to equality, don't let them turn us around.
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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.