Pankaj Mishra Quotes

As the spiritual leader of six million people, the Dalai Lama can be credited with a significant renunciation of the authority of tradition - of the conventional politics of national self-interest as well as of religion.

Pankaj Mishra

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People who assume my books are only about quilts obviously haven't read them! I've always known that my books are about quilters - in other words, people - rather than quilts or quilting.

Jennifer Chiaverini

WordsPeopleAlwaysAssumeBooks

It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.

Matthew Tobin Anderson

BookBelieveKindAdultDifferent

Paddington Bear was a refugee with a label - 'Please look after this bear. Thank you', and he had a little suitcase.

Michael Bond

Thank YouYouLookBearLittleHe

I used to travel in tennis shoes; I am just not allowed to anymore. I'm an old hippie from San Francisco.

Amy Irving

ShoesTravelI AmTennisOldHippie

Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.

Tony Benn

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What musical performers bring to straight characterizations is that physical flexibility that comes with knowing your body so well. A lot of actors are terribly awkward. Terribly. And I think it's so important for them, when they're young, to work on their physical selves.

Rita Moreno

WorkThinkBodyYoungYour Body

Once I found out how much an Off-Off-Broadway actor makes, I was whoring myself out the next day.

Rob Corddry

MyselfDayActorNextOutFound

My intentions have been, and are always, to just really get behind what my ideas are musically and to just ride this thing out, cause it feels good, and I think for the most part it's good music. Even when it's not, I'd like to still search for something that could be even like a little bit mind-blowing or shocking to me.

Ryan Adams

GoodMusicRideMeIdeasThink

Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LongYouLivedWellHowMain

We should attempt to bring nature, houses, and human beings together in a higher unity.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

NatureTogetherUnityHumanBring

I had listened to Joe Turner. When they'd book Joe there, I'd play the blues behind him.

Jay McShann

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Offset is helping to expand our relationship with large enterprises and serve a broader set of imaging.

Jon Oringer

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