Salman Rushdie Quotes
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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New Age is a very small box. It was a term that was brought in by the music industry to classify music that is neither jazz, classical, pop or rock. They didn't know what to call it or what to do with it. So they threw it all together under this one name.
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Imagine trying to learn without a dry place to sleep, eat, and do homework. Children cannot succeed in school if their lives out of school are in total chaos.
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Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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Where fear is, happiness is not.
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Even when I'm sick and depressed, I love life.
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I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living.
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In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.