Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Policymakers can draw much from 'The Need for Roots': such clear prescriptions as that employers ought to provide an adequate vocational training for their employees, education should be compulsory and publicly funded, and include technical as well as elementary education.

Pankaj Mishra

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Awards shows... I just feel like a fish out of water at those things.

Jesse Plemons

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I really believed Obama when he spoke in 2008, but I remember watching his victory speech after this last election and it was the same speech. Exactly the same speech. I felt like he didn't even believe it anymore. He seemed to be tired of saying the same thing.

Andrew Dominik

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It sounds kind of cliche, and a lot of people say it about our music, but I think a good place to hear our music for the first time is on vacation, or somewhere warm, on the beach or something like that.

St. Lucia

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Links are formed karmically on the earth and then continue between death and a new birth. Those who are able to see into the spiritual world perceive how the dead person gradually makes more and more links - all of which are the outcome of karmic connections formed on earth.

Rudolf Steiner

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We are legislators, not public works contractors. People look up to us to make serious laws that could change the lives of a great number of people or could change the way society is run or managed.

Miriam Defensor-Santiago

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The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

Mitt Romney

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I always feel I sing better if I have been playing a lot of tennis or football.

Juan Diego Florez

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It's time to stop spending money we don't have and balance the budget.

Joni Ernst

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I don't mind not being cool.

Chris Martin

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What intrigued me about him was his intelligence, his humor. I'd been all over the world. I had started a career. At that point, I had sort of committed myself to not committing. I didn't want to have to raise a husband, but he was so sophisticated and so funny.

Cindy McCain

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Every time I get mad, I grab my hammer and make a bookshelf or something.

Anthony Mackie

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Acting's not about nose jobs and liposuction. It's about being truthful to what you're doing.

Phylicia Rashad

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