Salman Rushdie Quotes
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
Ramez Naam
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
Dan Pink
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
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I had been doing all my school plays, elementary school, middle school, and high school, and then summer. I'd wanted to act for a long time, and I thought I was going to go to college and do theater, go that route. But 'Superbad' kind of fell on my lap. I was very, very lucky for that.
Christopher Mintz-Plasse
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While some doubted that connecting the world was actually important, we were building. While others doubted that this would be sustainable, you were forming lasting connections. We just cared more about connecting the world than anyone else. And we still do today.
Mark Zuckerberg
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Russia knows of the vulnerability of her frontiers in this part of the world.
Aly Khan
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The aim of a nuclear-transplant experiment is to insert the nucleus of a specialized cell into an unfertilized egg whose nucleus has been removed.
John Gurdon
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie