Salman Rushdie Quotes
Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
Samuel Butler
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
Kate McKinnon
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
Ramez Naam
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
Foster Friess
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
Dan Pink
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Anyone who thinks it's smart to cut immigration is sentencing Australia to poverty.
Malcolm Turnbull
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There are so many different criteria for my collecting, and I have to confess that the goalposts do shift. But obviously, with my background, I am particularly drawn to things that have been documented in contemporary magazines.
Hamish Bowles
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
Ed Miliband
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Brandon Boyd of Incubus is hot, but he's too pretty.
Rachel Perry
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
Pat Robertson
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
Madeline Carroll
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
Fawn Hall
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The IRS targeting certain groups for harassment because of their politics would be unfair. If we found out the NSA was keeping special tabs on everyone who worshiped at a mosque or took a Bible trip through the Middle East, you'd have an uprising.
Gail Collins
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The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything.
Albert Einstein
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Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it...
George Bernard Shaw
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Powerful to alleviate, to delay, to camouflage, though money is, in the end it lets us down.
Caryll Houselander
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My observations on clouds and skies are on scraps and bits of paper, and I have never yet put them together so as to form a lecture, which I shall do.. ..next summer. (1836)
John Constable
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
Salman Rushdie
