Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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Once you avoid the things that accelerate aging like smoking, obesity, excessive alcohol consumption, and excessive sun exposure, you've done about as much as you can to influence your aging process.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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Why is it so unutterably beneficial, the thought that someone besides myself knows me?
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I'm a decent tennis player. Good backhand.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
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The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.
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I decided to be heterosexual because I felt like that's the life God intended me to live.
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Discipline and united action are the real source of strength for the nation.
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A core part of Teach For America's mission has always been affecting positive change in the traditional public school system.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I'm not at all a hero. I'm a wussy.
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I want to tour, everywhere I can, all of the world.
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There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.
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When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.
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My 'Big Bang Theory' costar Johnny Galecki went off the grid. He bought a huge ranch and goes there every weekend. He keeps telling me to do the same thing, but I don't know if I'm that committed. The Valley is as far off the grid as I'm going to go.
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America had the message of freedom and democracy, but we haven't actually shown that to be what we do in the world. So I think that's a terrifying thing.
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You have a lot more freedom when you're the sidekick - you can bring a lot more of your own flavor to the role, and you can get away with a lot more.
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There's a lot of bad things going on but I didn't do nothing.
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Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
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We were sent to the Judengottesdienst, the children’s service at the synagogue on Saturday afternoons. The maid was supposed to take us. But she was a Catholic, like most Austrians, and she feared the synagogue; and my mother—a working woman, dependent on her help—feared the maid.
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
