Salman Rushdie Quotes
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.Salman Rushdie
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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.
Ma Jun -
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.
Edith Piaf -
Marginal tax rates are the lowest they've been in generations, and all we can talk about is tax cuts.
Patrick McHenry -
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.
J. G. Ballard -
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.
Saffron Burrows -
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.
Imran Amed
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You haven't partied until you've partied at dawn in complete silence with Buddhist monks.
Cameron Diaz -
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.
Kate Moss -
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
Edmund Wilson -
Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
Natalie Massenet -
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.
Ian Gomez -
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.
Jack Bruce Cream
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Enjoy every sandwich.
Warren Zevon -
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!
Karen Finerman -
The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano.
Yoko Ono -
A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.
Carlos Castaneda -
With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
J. J. Abrams -
The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
Gail Collins
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I'd say it's even harder to cater to Hispanics than to the lesbian or gay community. We're so culturally separated: Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Mexicans, Venezuelans. We're all so different.
Carlos Ponce -
Well, all the plays that I was trying to write … were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.
Arthur Miller -
The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world.
Deepak Chopra -
The world we build tomorrow is born in the stories we tell our children today. Politics moves the pieces. Education changes the game.
Jonathan Sacks -
Hyperrealism can create an atmosphere of surrealism because nobody sees the world in such detail.
Salman Rushdie