Salman Rushdie Quotes
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
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You could put all of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's angry sermons on to one loop. You could put that loop up on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall and let it play there 24 hours a day, seven days a week and Barack Obama will still emerge as the next president of the United States.
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I get to travel, see the world, meet people and be independent. I feel blessed.
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I smoke, isn't that terrible?
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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Feeling really safe as an actor is not a great thing because you're not learning or growing.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I sold Blockbuster because I saw what was coming: the satellite dish, technology that would make the business obsolete in a few years. Why would people go to a store for a video and then have to return it when they had a dish?
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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What's going on in the inside shows on the outside.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I love everything to be organized and clean... all the time.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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Establishing the rights for gay people to be married would cost the Australian government nothing financially and would gain for you worldwide respect from people like us and, of course, would change lives enormously - the lives of gay people and of their friends and of their families and therefore of Australia as a whole.
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Those who promise us paradise on earth never produced anything but a hell.
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In general, investors prefer companies to reward executives for producing recurring income, not one-time gains.
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The thing that I guess I've never understood is why people persist that I carried a crown on a pillow to Reverend Moon. I never did. I took it to his wife.
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I love animated movies in general. I like making them.
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It is a remarkable fact, a scientific fact, that the healthiest children come from the happiest mothers.
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I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.
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We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
