Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I do always have a wall up. But I feel by doing it, I keep myself safe.
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There is a need for the European Union to use all potential we have on defense cooperation.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
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I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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The Tao teaches us not to intervene and interfere. The things we love we have to learn to leave alone. And the people we love we have to learn to let them be.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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There is a unique freshness when eating buckwheat noodles cold with plenty of herbs and citrus acidity. I can't think of any better use of chopsticks on a hot and sweaty evening.
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I love architecture almost as much as I love my musicals.
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Confidence is the most beautiful thing you can possess.
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There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.
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I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
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Nobody seems to know yet how television is going to affect the radio, movies, love, housekeeping or the church, but it has definitely revived vaudeville.
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I want people to understand that I intend to continue living and doing all the things that I love to do up until the end. And the end is by no means rushing up on me.
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When something's good, I'm not an over-celebrator.
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Of all the grunge bands to come out of Seattle, Alice in Chains were the greatest.
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Throughout history, new arrivals or new competitors have often been regarded as threats, but the reality is that a stronger and more confident China is good for the world.
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No one has ever been angry at another human being-we’re only angry at our story of them.
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I ate like a horse when I was younger, and not very sensibly, though no one ever believes that.
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Son, a woman is like a beer. They smell good, they look good, you'd step over your own mother just to get one! But you can't stop at one. You wanna drink another woman!
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
