Salman Rushdie Quotes
The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
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When I was travelling in Rajasthan people were waving hands, and it felt like I was visiting my own constituency.
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When you're a producer and an artist you're very critical of yourself. I like to produce other people, but I'm not that good at producing myself.
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I have never been given to envy - save for the envy I feel toward those people who have the ability to make a marriage work and endure happily.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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The state must be the first to be organized and totally committed to serving the interests of the people.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.
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I don't like it when people don't hold the door. I don't know, that really bugs me... I guess I like manners.
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People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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The pledge drive has everything going against it as broadcasting. It's repetitive. It's ad-libbed by people who can't ad-lib. It's about asking for money, which is something nobody wants to hear, even from their own relatives.
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I'll take a look and get a second wind because so many little children are running around at my side.
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One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
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I love people who dress how they feel and change it depending on the day.
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A lot of people tend to glorify the role of satire and comedians. They put them up as role models, as fighters for the truth and against tyranny, and I think that's overrated.
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Certainly, last year we did an episode about the census and sampling versus a direct statistic. You just said the word 'census,' and people fall asleep.
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I never liked the bar scene. I tried to like it. I would give it a try every three or four months. I'd think, tonight I'm going out. But I never met anybody in that circumstance.
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The biggest mistake that you can make is to believe that you are working for somebody else. Job security is gone. The driving force of a career must come from the individual. Remember: Jobs are owned by the company, you own your career!
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We carry a new world here, in our hearts. That world is growing this minute.
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The frustrating part of being tagged 'controversial' is people go looking for trouble where there isn't any to look for.
