Salman Rushdie Quotes
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.Salman Rushdie
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We were five kids at home, and my mother and grandmother ensured that we all had a very grounded upbringing in Madras. Even in school, I never used to tell anyone that my dad was an actor.
Mahesh Babu -
I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
Frances Fisher -
There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
Ramez Naam -
Another occupation might have been better.
F. H. Bradley -
Over the years, I have been asked to play these sort of scary frenetic characters that express their emotions physically.
Gary Oldman -
I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
Mahershala Ali
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I've found that entrepreneurial success usually comes through great execution, simply by doing a superior job of doing the blocking and tackling.
Naveen Jain -
We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
Ramez Naam -
If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine -
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
Ted Olson -
Of course there are times when I think, 'I'd be better out of this.'
Barry Took
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
Paloma Faith -
There was a girl who messaged me and said she was on the verge of taking her life, then 'Battles' came on just in the nick of time.
La'Porsha Renae -
It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
Kate Bush -
I remember the great atmosphere and the great stadium.
Carl Zeiss -
During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
Edith Stein -
I have not been a follower of how many millions my films made or did not make.
Irvin Kershner
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I didn't even realize that I was interested in film until I was in college, and since then, I've had a very uncertain and sort of lost decade.
Gaby Hoffmann -
You don't know what you're going to get into when you follow your bliss.
James Hillman -
Some people would never get any exercise at all if they didn't have to walk to their cars.
Evan Esar -
Restaurants serve huge portions on even huger platters, and people are tempted to eat too much.
Alek Wek -
Oh my God, the luxuries we have in America. We just don't even realize because you live in it long enough and you come to expect it, but when you get to take a step outside of it you really, really get to recognize how blessed we are and how much we have.
Lindsey McKeon -
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.
Salman Rushdie