Pankaj Mishra Quotes
Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
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I had long hair when I was a teenager.
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I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted.
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It lies in human nature that where you experience your first laughs, you also remember the age kindly.
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I'm a competitive person by nature, and I have been in competitive companies, and I love to compete - joining a company where, certainly, there is a real fire in the belly to compete and bring that energy is something I look forward to.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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I did ask Matt Damon for his autograph - and I got a picture, too!
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My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.
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Growing up in the suburbs, I used to listen to punk rock, Brand New, Taking Back Sunday. And no one from my high school listened to it.
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Golf is not easy.
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My sister was always very motherly, babysitting and stuff.
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It's hard for me to view Baltimore outside the context of what Baltimore has always been in my mind: a violent place.
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I'm not a great one for looking back.
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I was always taken in and out of school.
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I've always overworked in the weight room. I love working with weights. I knew they'd give me the strength I needed.
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I stay true because whatever the project is, I'm still looking for inside of that character. It's the thing that connects him to me and to everybody else. So, the search is the same. It's to unveil the truth, and that's how I stay true, because my purpose isn't altered.
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There are parts of me that I feel are beautiful, but they don't have anything to do with my nose.
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If developed countries' citizens want to feel slightly better about their economies' slow growth and high unemployment, they should contemplate how much worse matters could be without the institutions that they have.
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The creativity that can occur when a feel for both the humanities and the sciences combine in one strong personality was the topic that most interested me in my biographies of Franklin and Einstein, and I believe that it will be a key to creating innovative economies in the twenty-first century.
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We all have hierarchies at work - even on set, the runner would never walk up to the director and ask for a cup of coffee.
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I admire people like Kristen Wiig, who is hilarious but also does a lot of really cool films. I would love to have a career like hers.
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Instead of isolating our school and our many subjects from the every day world, we intend to plant it not merely in the French capital, but in what for next summer at least will be the focal point, the capital of the entire civilized world.
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Tanning is tricky, because a lot of people just look orange.
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Countries that managed to rebuild commanding state structures after popular nationalist revolutions - such as China, Vietnam, and Iran - look stable and cohesive when compared with a traditional monarchy such as Thailand or wholly artificial nation-states like Iraq and Syria.
