Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Shallowness and ignorance have been our lot in the mass consumer societies we inhabit, where we were too distracted to act politically, apart from periodically deputing political elites to take life-and-death decisions on our behalf.

Pankaj Mishra

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I think people do like extremes in cinema. There are very few films told about everyday middle-class couples, which is odd to me, as there are a lot of everyday middle-class couples.

Andrew Haigh

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One thing Jim McGreevey wants the world to know: Leading a double life as a gay man trying to appear straight was easy for him to pull off. He was 'good' at it. Not only that - it helped him become a better politician.

Jeanne Marie Laskas

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I remember 'Wrestlemania 6' with The Ultimate Warrior against Hulk Hogan. It was so cool to see those guys go in there and the fans getting into the match so much.

Jeff Hardy

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September 11 reinforced for me that whatever I'm writing about, it better be something that really matters to me because we don't know what's going to happen tomorrow. And for me it's stories about people in pain in New York.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

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Motown will always be a heavy-duty part of my life because those are my roots.

Smokey Robinson

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I don't want anyone controlling me.

Rodrigo Duterte

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My parents were entrepreneurs. They ran a small ad agency in upstate New York.

Mike McCue

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For me, writing is a job. I do not separate the work from the act of writing like two things that have nothing to do with each other. I arrange words one after another, or one in front of another, to tell a story, to say something that I consider important or useful, or at least important or useful to me.

Jose Saramago

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My mom really let us do our own thing and play with different trends, and my sister was a little older, so she had all the beauty tricks. I would stuff things like rolled-up toilet paper into my hair to get volume, or do the reverse, and I'd lie on my back, and she'd use an actual iron to straighten it.

Chrissy Teigen

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I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.

Annie Leibovitz

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The clothes have to perform for me.

Pauline Trigere

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I am not on this planet to get something done - the things we accomplish are expressions of our purpose.

Paul Williams

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