Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Setting a tone of inclusiveness and ensuring protection for all begins at the top, whether from the White House or the State House.
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If I want popularity, I go to a chef's convention.
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You don't just turn on a camera and do a cooking show. If you want to go somewhere with something, you've got to make it look like what it's supposed to look like five years from now.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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The one characteristic of authentic power that most people overlook is humbleness. It is important for many reasons. A humble person walks in a friendly world. He or she sees friends everywhere he or she looks, wherever he or she goes, whomever he or she meets. His or her perception goes beyond the shell of appearance and into essence.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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I have always lived an ordinary life, and always will. It's who and what has to do with my job that makes it 'unordinary.' I cook, go to the supermarket, pick my children up at school.
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Poor, dear, silly Spring, preparing her annual surprise!
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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Many actors come and disappear into oblivion. But not Salman Khan.
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Everything that I design I would wear myself.
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Yes, I've kissed a lot of guys. I like to kiss, but that's it. I don't go home with anyone. I sleep with my animals, like my baby monkey, Brigitte Bardot.
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Our laboratory is a place that celebrates diversity and is totally open to all differences, not just sex but also age, ethnicity, religion and other traditions.
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When I was a teenager, I learned to play the trumpet. Music became my passion.
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Gay marriage is going to happen. It must.
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I think we're a deeper team, a better team, we still have work to do... nothing is guaranteed, but hopefully we got the mentality to play on the road, and we're starting to get our home thing back in order now-if we can do that we'll be just fine.
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To get into Afghanistan, I bribed my way into a camel caravan of smugglers.
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You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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I teach one thing and one only: that is, suffering and the end of suffering.
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Wisdom is the key to understanding the age, creating the time.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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Our lives teach us who we are.
