Salman Rushdie Quotes
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.

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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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I have seen the Gore documentary 'An Inconvenient Truth,' just released in the States, and admired the acutely revolutionary delivery of the slideshow assisted talk he has now been giving for some 16 years.
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For someone who comes from my business background, getting fashion people aligned around certain things can be a challenge. In a way, the industry is so forward-looking. And yet, sometimes people in fashion are not open to change.
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I had a lot of vocal problems when I was younger. I don't know if it's down to leading a healthier lifestyle or what but my range has increased.
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There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and mad at the pitcher.
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Enjoy every sandwich.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
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A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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Who said that time heals all wounds? It would be better to say that time heals everything - except wounds. With time, the hurt of separation loses its real limits. With time, the desired body will soon disappear, and if the desiring body has already ceased to exist for the other, then what remains is a wound, disembodied.
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If your life changes, we can change the world, too.
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For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
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One change of attitude would change everything. If everyone realized that it could be a beautiful world and said let's not do these things anymore - let's have fun.
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Many refined people will not kill a fly, but eat an ox.
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Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.