Salman Rushdie Quotes
It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
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For most of my time in Tallahassee, I did a lot of transportation.
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My films are of paramount importance to me, the same as my family. That's not going to change. This is a balance I have to strike throughout my life.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Bulls can do nothing to demand justice. They can only defend themselves as best they can in a fight with a pre-determined ending and die never knowing why they were forced to endure such a painful and prolonged death. It's up to us, as a civilized society, to call for an end to the Running of the Bulls and bullfighting.
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For some small number of people, a parental loss appears to be, ultimately, a desirable difficulty - again, not a large number.
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There's no way to understand housing as it exists today without federal policy.
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Alcohol, tobacco, and pharmaceutical drugs are legal, but they can hurt a lot of people.
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I have no family to take care of and no children to pass wealth to.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I loved teaching social studies. And I loved starting each year by teaching about John Locke and the social contract. That lesson helped me teach not just about our rules for the classroom, but how, in our democracy, we give up some individual rights to ensure we collectively have the right to live and prosper in a society.
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The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.
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I never try to follow a trend or fashion.
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The American dream always meant that anybody willing to put in a hard day's work could make a decent living. That's just not true anymore for people without at least some post-high school education.
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I'd be kidding if I said that I predicted the financial collapse.
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I'm tired of malicious articles slandering me.
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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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Theatre, when it is at its best, takes a lot of beating - the live experience and the shared collective experience of live storytelling is really special when it is good. Particularly here in New York because the audiences are amazing, very vocal and very engaged, and that makes theatre very exciting.
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The bottom line is, you love your wife, you do your best with that.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I'm not a kid trying to make an impression in the business. I do have 600 films out there that are playing constantly.
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Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.
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It may be that the books that were best liked in your lifetime are not the ones that are best liked 100 years later.
