Salman Rushdie Quotes
One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
Quotes to Explore
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I am a human being. When you are frustrated, you do cry. It's more than once that I cried.
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I pass no judgment about historic events. I defend the human freedoms. Whatever event has taken place throughout history, or hasn't taken place, I cannot judge that.
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The yogi offers his labyrinthine human longings to a monotheistic bonfire dedicated to the unparalleled God. This is indeed the true yogic fire ceremony, in which all past and present desires are fuel consumed by love divine.
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It is impossible for human beings not to view something subjectively.
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I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.
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Extraordinary allegations require extraordinary evidence.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.
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Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.
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The world may be driven by the same ancient impulses. We will continue to see human struggles and successes. We will witness human glory and tragedies.
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Anybody who dedicates himself to exploring the human condition, there's always a detached eye that's watching. In any situation, a little part of me is observing it, to see if there are any raw materials to create something else later.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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The human juggernaut is permanently eroding Earth's ancient biosphere.
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Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.
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Always, in every human action, there are leaders.
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It is never possible to understand completely any other human being; and no individual will ever really understand himself - the complexity is too great and there is not the time to constantly take things apart and examine them.
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There are things that the horse did for me that a human couldn't have done.
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In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
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It is important not to trust people too much.
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One of the extraordinary things about human events is that the unthinkable becomes thinkable.
