Salman Rushdie Quotes
Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
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I always have issues with trust.
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I live a half mile from the San Andreas fault - a fact that bubbles up into my consciousness every time some other part of the world experiences an earthquake. I sometimes wonder whether this subterranean sense of impending disaster is at least partly responsible for Silicon Valley's feverish, get-it-done-yesterday work norms.
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Whatever happens in life is fine - just trust in that.
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Classic cable TV may have hit its peak, but it's still a huge force, and the streaming apps of many cable networks still require you to authenticate that you're a paying cable customer every time you want to use a new such TV app.
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
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I lived in Montreal from the time I was 12 until I was 16.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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Marley is someone before his time, man. He's - he's almost - he's like a deity, like almost, you know what I mean? I just talk about what's going on, but of course, you know, Bob, before rappers, was already laying that kind of thing down.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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The chief internal enemies of any state are those public officials who betray the trust imposed upon them by the people.
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There was one point in high school actually when I was on the chess team, marching band, model United Nations and debate club all at the same time. And I would spend time with the computer club after school. And I had just quit pottery club, which I was in junior high, but I let that go.
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As an actor, I'm familiar with having bursts of energy, where you're giving things a try, and then you have down time.
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Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
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I don't trust a lot of journalists.
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That whole environment was just incompatible with my beliefs and my personality. It was a dark time for me.
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For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
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Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being.
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My music is not lovely.
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I can promise you none of these things. No sphere of usefulness; you are not needed there at all. No scope of your talents; only forgiveness for having perverted them. No atmosphere of inquiry, for I will bring you to the land not of questions but of answers, and you shall see the face of God. (pg 40)
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There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.
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I always wanted to write for children. When I was growing up, we were really poor. My mother had left, and it was all a mess. So I lived in my head a lot, and I would get lots of books for Christmas - from librarians and teachers - and they just fed my imagination.
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Like everybody else, I've had relationships in which I was passionately in love but was completely miserable all the time and didn't trust the person I was in love with one inch.
