Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Everything you need you already have. You are complete right now, you are a whole, total person, not an apprentice person on the way to someplace else. Your completeness must be understood by you and experienced in your thoughts as your own personal reality.
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I've turned from an ordinary Australian housewife into a gigastar, icon, talk-show host, swami, spin doctor... and now I'm a style guru!
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I came from the bottom. Now I'm the main event and UFC champion.
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Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.
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There are just so many young designers now.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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It is time for dead languages to be quiet.
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There's a sense of being under siege in many Muslim communities. People just assume there are agents or informants in their mosque now. It's a fact of life.
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I'm obsessed. I've always needed to know what's going on but now it's a must.
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In my 20s, I wanted to be hot; now I want to be healthy.
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I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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A good story will keep you wondering about what's happening, what's going on, where does this go? Now it's going to go that way, now it's going to go that way. It has to do that. If it's predictable, it's just boring.
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Listen, I must be 110 by now. Granny is going to kick the bucket at some point.
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Unbeing dead isn't being alive.
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I had a guitar when I was 6 or 7, a plastic guitar with the Beatles' faces on it. It would be a collector's item now. It would fetch a hefty sum, I imagine.
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Your evolutionary heuristics come back to the idea of a future roughly similar to what it is now. You give to the community as it is now, to benefit a similar community in the future.
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Administrator McCarthy and the EPA will soon find out that Washington bureaucrats are becoming far too aggressive in attacking our way of life. Administrator McCarthy should be apologizing to Missourians. EPA aggression has reached an all-time high, and now it must be stopped.
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I am concerned if 25 percent of Americans think that President Obama is a Muslim. I mean, it's obviously a lack of knowledge. But also, it's for the Muslims as well, you know, because a small numbers of Muslims have really painted a very negative image of Islam.
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It is not because other people are dead that our affection for them grows faint, it is because we ourselves are dying.
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I'm trying to eliminate every vestige of my own personality, style, approach and get into somebody else's skin. Sometimes I feel I've accomplished it. But when I don't, I'm nobody at all, having left myself at home
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This is where the block chain is most useful and revolutionary: It helps us to overcome the problem of mutual trust in exchange, which will, in turn, make many of our modern central institutions unnecessary.
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Celebrity is a very tricky area to navigate.
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If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now.
