Salman Rushdie Quotes
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.Salman Rushdie
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
J. B. Smoove -
The fallacy of the neoclassicals is their tenet that total employment, though hit by shocks, can be said always to be heading back to some normal level.
Edmund Phelps -
I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
Nas -
Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine -
The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
Larry Elder -
Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
Mao Zedong
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Whatever its flaws, the United Nations is still the only institution that brings together all the countries of the world. And it is the best forum for the United States to spur countries to act - and to hold them accountable when they don't.
Samantha Power -
When I was a little kid, I used to watch with my brother when there was Macho Man and Hulk Hogan. But then I fell out of it for a few years.
Becky Lynch -
I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
Tahar Ben Jelloun -
Slang is a language that rolls up its sleeves, spits on its hands and goes to work.
Carl Sandburg -
I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
Hanna Rosin -
Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
Walter Bagehot
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I've never had a job. I've never needed to.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Ralph Waldo Emerson would definitely be my homeboy.
Rainn Wilson -
My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
Kate Christensen -
I must stick with Chinese language films.
Zhang Yimou -
I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
B. B. King -
I don't want to rap forever. But I want to be rich forever.
Young Thug
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'Journey' was very much inspired by Joseph Campbell's work for 'The Hero's Journey,' but, from among his works, I like 'The Power of Myth' best.
Jenova Chen -
My mom is a script supervisor. It's like the family business. It never had that feeling of entertainment. It was always more like, "Eh, it's just a movie," with that crew mentality, which is, "We've done it before and we can do it again."
Kristen Stewart -
We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.
Rupert Murdoch -
My own grandfathers were a submarine commander and a 'desert rats' tank operator in the Second World War.
Benedict Cumberbatch -
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw -
In a novel, if you're any good, you don't just have good people or bad people. You have complicated people. You have real people.
Salman Rushdie