Pankaj Mishra Quotes

To Westerners, the students at Tiananmen may have given an impression of a solid and energetic consensus against dictatorship and for democracy, but they were an egotistical and fractious lot, riven by disagreements over tactics and money.

Pankaj Mishra

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The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields.

John Burroughs

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The ability to fight isn't a one-size fits all; everybody is different.

Melissa McBride

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Clarinet is an incredible instrument. It's a great, expressive instrument.

Anat Cohen

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David and I were divorced in 1980, and there has been silence between us ever since. Despite our decade of marriage and a child together, I was airbrushed out of his life. He never demonstrated any affection or gratitude after we parted. He fired anyone who mentioned my name.

Angela Bowie

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If you break your knee, you have therapy on your knee, and it's the same for your heart.

Toni Braxton

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It's important for me to work hard and give 100 per cent in training to try to improve.

Ruben Loftus-Cheek

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I mean one of the weird things about TV and one of the things that some actors don't like but I kind of dig is that you never know where you're headed, I mean you never know what the writer might think of next.

Mary McCormack

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I'm not affiliated with either Wikileaks or Anonymous - of course, it's not like I would tell you anyway if I were because the whole point is to be anonymous.

Jonathan Nolan

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I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

Jordyn Wieber

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If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that.

Dean Koontz

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Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know.

Clint Eastwood

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Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

Anthony Marra

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