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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I haven't always been confident enough to rock different styles because I used to be really shy.
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There are very real differences between science fiction and realistic fiction, between horror and fantasy, between romance and mystery. Differences in writing them, in reading them, in criticizing them. Vive les différences! They're what gives each genre its singular flavor and savor, its particular interest for the reader - and the writer.
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Hey baby, what'cha know good?I'm just gettin' back, but you knew I would.War is hell, when will it end?When will people start gettin' together again?
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My buildings are all on budget.
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I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.
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I grew up reading 'The Jungle Books' and loving them.
