"When I moved to London in the 1990s, it had changed a great deal. Racism had become deeply uncool. But there has been a return of racism in the guise of "antiterrorism." People who look like myself are immediately suspect. I've become extremely self-conscious about going into crowded public places."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Self Quotes #Racism Quotes #People Quotes

“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a completely ad hoc plot device.”

Source : David Langford (2003). “Up Through an Empty House of Stars”, p.122, Wildside Press LLC
“I mean, we just started, it's a new thing. We're doing this for fun and we're going to see where it goes.”

Source : "Just a Guy Who Plays Drums: An Interview with Bill Kreutzmann". Interview with Sarah Bruner, www.jambands.com. March 15, 1999.
“Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.”
“Not that I ever did anything wrong. I was just aggressive. That's the way I am in my life.”
“It takes all sorts of people to make the underworld.”

Source : "Story of a Feather", in "Punch", Volume V, p. 55, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 911-17, 1922.
“There is never a circumstance, no matter how catastrophic, that also does not hold within it an opportunity to better things, to better yourself. Every moment brings with it an opportunity to love, to forgive, to grow beyond your shortcomings.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“A dance performance is rather like going out into a battlefield. You have to hold the attention of as many as five to 10,000 people a lot of whom do not follow your language.”
“Remember, the Islamist view of democracy is: one man, one vote, one election, and that's it.”

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