Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Gandhi, brought out of his semirural setting and given a Western-style education, initially attempted to become more English than the English.

Pankaj Mishra

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EducationBecomeMoreOutEnglish

It's really nice meeting people after a concert. Still, it's very weird to be at the center of a group of 30 people all listening to what you're saying. When that group turns into 300 people, it goes on from weird. Some people revel in it, and I don't.

Robert Smith

PeopleListeningSayingWeirdYou

Sometimes the most beautiful thing is precisely the one that comes unexpectedly and unearned, hence something given truly as a present.

Anna Freud

BeautifulPresentSometimesSomething

If one sibling does something, the other will fill the opposite role. I found, at least for my brother and I in real life, that seems to be a thing.

Alycia Debnam-Carey

LifeBrotherSiblingWillRealRole

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict and Jihadism have nothing to do with each other.

Steven Spielberg

ConflictNothingIsraeli-Palestinian

Personality traits form at an early age and are fixed by early adulthood. Many important things about you change over the course of your lifetime, but your personality isn't one of them.

Travis Bradberry

ChangeAgePersonalityYouEarly

I think I'll be flavor of the month when I'm in my fifties.

Rosamund Pike

ThinkMonthFlavorFiftiesI Think

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Mikaela Shiffrin

LifePerfectionMeThinkShortYou

We only call at ducks when their rear ends are towards us. If I'm looking at you and you call my name, then I know where the sound came from. But if you had your back to me and I holler and you turn around, you would assume somebody hollered. You want your decoys to represent the sound that you're making.

Jase Robertson

MeLookingNameYouBackKnow

Eventually, competition and adventure wane, and I enter my ibuprofen phase. Tweaky hamstrings and achy knees restrict mileage, but I continue running for health, sanity, and the ritual of a Sunday trail run with like-minded buddies. We discuss the nagging injuries that bedevil us, and remember the good old days when we were kings.

Don Kardong

GoodHealthAdventureCompetition

Not enough countries, not enough armies, not enough armed groups are abiding by the fundamental human values enshrined in the Geneva Conventions.

Peter Maurer

EnoughValuesHumanHuman Values

I'm like the universe; either expanding or contracting at any given moment. The most that I had put on was about 35, 36 pounds, and I've taken all of that off.

Sean Astin

MomentUniverseOffLikeMostTaken

The first time I came to New York, I was 14. I was on holiday, and I loved it! I knew that I would come back to live here. It's a city that makes you feel, very quickly, at home.

Kenza Fourati

HomeLiveTimeNew YorkCityLoved

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