Pankaj Mishra Quotes

In a typically contradictory move, globalisation, while promoting economic integration among elites, has exacerbated sectarianism everywhere else.

Pankaj Mishra

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IntegrationEconomicMoveEverywhere

Being a good mother does not call for the same qualities as being a good housewife; a dedication to keeping children clean and tidy may override an interest in their separate development as individuals.

Ann Oakley

GoodMotherChildrenDedicationTidy

Globalization and technical change are the guarantee of our future prosperity. And reversing on that will not only make things worse, but it will make things worse for a very large number of people around the world who have benefitted - people in China and India who have been dragged out of the most awful poverty.

Angus Deaton

ChangeFuturePeopleWorldPoverty

We have to do a better job of putting some rules on the insurance companies.

Amy Klobuchar

JobBetterInsuranceRulesSome

I wanted to be like Bruce Jenner.

Sugar Ray Leonard

LikeWantedBruce

I look forward to a lot more free time, at least initially, with my wife, Lisa, and our three children.

Steve Yzerman

ChildrenTimeWifeFreeForwardOur

I think the point of our country, our planet, the reason we're all here, one of the best things that we can do is be concerned about something even when it doesn't concern us. That's the whole point.

Shonda Rhimes

BestThinkCountryReasonPlanetUs

The ceaseless labour of your life is to build the house of death.

Michel de Montaigne

LifeDeathHouseBuildYourLabour

Well we had nine top forensic pathologists from across the country, who operated as a panel, who looked at all the ballistic evidence and they came out saying that those bullets did exactly what the Warren Commission said they did.

Louis Stokes

SayingCountrySaidTopOutWell

You may not understand your parents' interpretation of love and what they think is best for you, but you have to trust it.

Jovan Adepo

LoveTrustBestParentsThinkYou

I would rather start a family than finish one.

Don Marquis

FamilyStartFinishWouldRather

My Writers Guild of America card is one of my proudest possessions. I was given it after being invited to write the script for a film of my last novel, 'Me Before You,' which is being made by MGM. Whenever I look at it, I think, 'I'm a Hollywood writer!'

Jojo Moyes

MeThinkAmericaYouLookHollywood

My biggest ambition when I was younger was to appear on stage at what was then Nimrod, which is the theatre where my father used to take me on Sunday afternoons to see matinees. The most extraordinary things used to occur on that stage.

David Wenham

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