Salman Rushdie Quotes

I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

Salman Rushdie

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.

  

  Zachery Ty Bryan
  • Business
  • You
  • Me

• Let me clarify this very definitely. This is not an authoritarian organization.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Organization
  • Definitely
  • Authoritarian

• There's a part of me that's always charging ahead. I'm the curious kid, always going to the edge.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Me
  • Kid
  • Curious

• If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Country
  • Military
  • Guilty

• 'Hell is for Children' is amazing to do every night and 'Promises in the Dark' and 'Love Is a Battlefied,' of course, but my absolute favorite would be 'Heartbreaker.' It's the one that started everything, so it has a very special place in my heart. And it still rocks every night! It's so fun to do.

  

  Pat Benatar
  • Children
  • Heart
  • Fun

• Sometimes it's less about the character and more about the story for me. I'll play a rock in the background if I think the story is fantastic and I can be a part of it somehow. That's what I look for.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Character
  • Play
  • Rock

• I don't have anyone's number; I just Facebook them.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Just
  • Number
  • Facebook

• Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Children
  • Today
  • inspirational

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• I dread the idea of a paparazzi snapping me while I'm out running.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Me
  • Running
  • Idea

• I know from an editor's point of view or a publisher's point of view it's easier to slot me into a particular niche. But I know that I'd be bored unless I wrote a book that in some senses was a challenge.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Book
  • Me
  • Challenge

• People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.

  

  Kacy Catanzaro
  • Tired
  • Amazed
  • Runners

• I always try to put something personal on my albums just to give people out there a little piece of my history and how I got where I am and who I am.

  

  Randy Houser
  • People
  • History
  • Albums

• Being traditional is a choice for me. South Indian families bring up their children with a sense of freedom, self-respect and self-value. We do whatever we have to with earnestness and honesty, including being uninhibited. Yet we hold onto our roots.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • Up
  • Children
  • Freedom

• Kids can't build a marble statue at home. But I've had parents tell me that, after an exhibit, their kids immediately dug out their Lego kits and disappeared for three days.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Parents

• While reliving trauma is dramatic, frightening, and potentially self-destructive, over time a lack of presence can be even more damaging. This is a particular problem with traumatized children. The acting-out kids tend to get attention; the blanked-out ones don’t bother anybody and are left to lose their future bit by bit.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Children
  • Attention
  • Problem

• We have allowed the sexual debate to be defined by women, and that's not right. Men must speak, and speak in their own voices, not voices coerced by feminist moralists.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

  

  Colin Angle
  • Life
  • School
  • High

• I have never had other kids in the house... I had a huge collection of marbles, and they all had names, which I think concerned my parents. I used to go and sweep outside and talk to myself, and my mum's friends would be over and say, 'Do you realise she is talking to herself?'

  

  Alexandra Adornetto
  • She
  • Kids
  • Friends

• He whom we anatomized‘whose words we gathered as pleasant flowersand thought on his wit and how neatly he described things’speaksto us, hatching marrow,broody all night over the bones of a deadman.

  

  Basil Bunting
  • Night
  • Words

• I am on Facebook, but mainly as a way to spy on my children. I find out more about them from their Facebook pages than from what they tell me.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Children
  • Facebook
  • Spy