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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I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.
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I'm looking at them from above, because God put me there.
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It takes having your golf peak four different times throughout the year. You have to like all four golf courses. You've got to be the best of that week for the four weeks.
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I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, saying to the previous generation of writers, 'Look, I'm interested in Ottoman things, and I'm not afraid of it, and I'm doing something creative.'
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The challenge to our liberties comes frequently not from those who consciously seek to destroy our system of government, but from men of goodwill - good men who allow their proper concerns to blind them to the fact that what they propose to accomplish involves an impairment of liberty.
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
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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.
