Salman Rushdie Quotes
All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
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Flying down a tunnel of 1s and 0s is not how hacking is really done.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I have one of these bodies. When I was younger, I could never put weight on, and now that I'm a little older, there's a natural sort of chubbiness coming. But honestly, if I work out for a week, it drops off in no time.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I weighed 25 stone, and I didn't stand nine feet tall, so the weight didn't sit well on me. As big as a house? No. I was as big as an estate.
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If you keep saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I just don't tend to cook eggplant at home.
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Writing is much, much harder than taking pictures because you have to man-haul it all out of your insides.
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I'm a mother of a three-year-old, but when I started 'California,' my son wasn't even a twinkle in my eye. Because the book took as long as it did, I wrote it before I was pregnant, while I was pregnant, and as a new mother - so I enjoyed a diversity of experiences while creating this world.
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'LazyTown' is on a mission to move the world to be a healthier place. When we get kids moving, we get their families moving. And when families move, we are one step closer to moving the world. Move the body, move the mind, every day.
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To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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I haven't gone to college yet and I intend to in a few years.
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It's kinda all about image.
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There are still 500,000 persons afflicted with leprosy in Latin America, so it is still very much present.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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We made an amazing video about Newtown's struggle to figure out what to do with all the letters and art sent to the town.
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I don't see anything wrong with being alone, it feels great to me. People make a big thing about personal love. It doesn't have to be such a big thing. The same for living - people make a big thing about that too. But personal living and personal loving are the two things the Eastern-type wise men don't think about.
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Oppression does not make for hearts as big as all outdoors. Oppression makes us big and small. Expressive and silenced. Deep and dead.
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For better and for worse, I feel like sorrow and grief are really transformative personal experiences for me, and I question what I would be had I decided to take a different path and not embrace that kind of pain.
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All art began as sacred art, you know? I mean, all painting began as religious painting. All writing began as religious writing.
