Pankaj Mishra Quotes

Though there are laws against blasphemy and insult to religion in many European countries, France has institutionalised its anti-clerical past by proscribing religion from public life.

Pankaj Mishra

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I really think that education is ground zero for fixing anything.

Jimmy Iovine

EducationThinkGroundAnythingZero

I'm actually scared of horror movies. I'm kind of Scaredy Cat when it comes to that stuff.

Jennifer Love Hewitt

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You have to remember that not every creature that was evolving left behind its skull or its tools for our convenience tens of thousands of years later. Most bones or most tools rot or get buried and are never found again.

Steven Pinker

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I hate it when characters know things but only reveal them when it's convenient to the story. I'd never do that. That's cheating.

Simon Toyne

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The court generally moves in small steps rather than in one giant step.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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Music and books, I think, were the two things I trusted the most as a child - songs and books.

Mary Gauthier

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When I decided to go to art school, it wasn't necessarily something I thought I needed. No one talked about graduate school when I was an undergrad. I went on to a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem, and that transition from Yale to the Studio Museum, that was the real beginning of my professional career.

Mickalene Thomas

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The Federal Reserve system obviously doesn't work anymore - they keep lowering the federal discount rate, and all that happens is that the banks are making a fortune, and the old folks' CDs are getting chewed up.

Molly Ivins

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I would love to be remembered for ridding the world of disease, but my knowledge of science comes from episodes of 'Nova' and shows on the Discovery Channel. I don't think a superficial understanding of shark behavior and black holes can help cure diseases.

Miriam Shor

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Comedy is not something that a person can fake or learn how to do.

Lizzy Caplan

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I really do believe that was what I was put on this planet to do: to give to people and, through my performances, show them another world - in the case of '24,' to show them what a politician, black or white, should be. Basically, I wanted to be a service to others.

Dennis Haysbert

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I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.

Donna Brazile

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