Pankaj Mishra Quotes

The Turkish, Arab and Chinese nationalists who built new nation-states out of the ruins of old empires scorned their old, decrepit rulers as much as they did the foreign imperialists who imposed free trade through gunboats.

Pankaj Mishra

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Growing Ineos has been a lot of fun.

Jim Ratcliffe

FunGrowingBeenLot

In the morning, I have certain aspirations. One of my goals is to avoid looking at the computer or checking e-mail for at least an hour after I wake up. I also try to avoid alarm clocks as much as possible, because it's just nice to wake up without one.

Matt Mullenweg

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We all wish that we could be more productive.

John Rampton

WishMoreProductiveCould

That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'

Alvin Lee

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I want my kids to have passion for life, to really have a passion for life. I think when you have a passion for something, you can overcome obstacles, if you float through life without having anything to hold on to or get you fired up emotionally and to focus on, I think it's really hard to overcome things.

Steve Nash

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Let him that is without stone among you cast the first thing he can lay his hands on.

Robert Frost

HandsYouStoneFirstHimWithout

We don't go to war to protect Pizza Hut or Burger King or some other things, some of the nonsense I've seen on our battlefields.

Michael T. Flynn

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I feel like my peers now are artists like Madonna and the Stones, Michael Jackson and Prince. These are people who were able to take their careers beyond the normal here-today-gone-tomorrow life span.

LL Cool J

LifePeopleFeelNowBeyondNormal

People have been born in refugee camps and they are getting tired of that.

Javier Bardem

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The thing about people from Chicago and the Northwest suburbs is that they're very cocky. I think that serves us well in the show business world.

Jay Chandrasekhar

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Don't ever play yourself.

DJ Khaled

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I didn't think I'd do movies in Los Angeles. I never thought it would happen. In fact, it was not a fantasy. For me, I said, 'If ever I go there, they will ask me to do 'Legally Blonde 5.'

Denis Villeneuve

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