Pankaj Mishra Quotes
It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I always say that I am a big fan of films but I am an even bigger fan of the filmmaking craft.
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I've called myself the Pied Piper, I've called myself the Weatherman, I've called myself Kellz, I've called myself a lot of things, changing the name, switching it up, just flipping, remixing. But never to harm anybody. Never to make a deep statement for people to dig into and figure it out.
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What is important, then, is not that the critic should possess a correct abstract definition of beauty for the intellect, but a certain kind of temperament, the power of being deeply moved by the presence of beautiful objects.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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People sort of went crazy when 'BTWAM' came out. I'm happy a bunch of people read it. I'm happy it touched so many people. I'm less happy that it became an object for certain folks or was discussed that way. I'm less happy that journalists started scrolling through my kid's Instagram account.
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And literature frequently rises to heights that make it international.
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I've always fought as a heavyweight, and I didn't see any reason to fight at a lighter weight.
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There was no reality to pain when it left one, thought while it held one fast all other realities failed.
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Many of depression's symptoms - exhaustion, insomnia, nausea, headaches, weight loss, weight gain - are physical ailments.
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All people, regardless of whether they're athletes or not, should treat people the way they want to be treated.
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Though the male can be noble in reason and infinite in faculties, he is also easily amused by shiny toys, especially ones that do dumb things on his desk.
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Is not the whole world a vast house of assignation of which the filing system has been lost?
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Through my illness I learned rejection. I was written off. That was the moment I thought, Okay, game on. No prisoners. Everybody's going down.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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I do my best work if I think about what it is I have to offer.
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Let's face it; by and large math is not easy, but that's what makes it so rewarding when you conquer a problem, and reach new heights of understanding.
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Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.
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It is no use walking anywhere to preach unless our walking is our preaching.
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America's most dangerous export was never nuclear weapons or Jerry Lewis-or even Baywatch reruns. It was, is, and probably always will be our fast-food outlets.
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America is the last great goal of these migrations.
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I met one child there eleven years old, speaking three languages [in Guinea]. He could speak English, French and Malinke. Speaking my language actually better than I could. And this hypocrisy - they tell us here in America [ that black people can't be intelligent].
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
