Salman Rushdie Quotes
This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
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I was born in the city's general hospital on November 15, 1930, and we lived at 31 Amherst Avenue in the western suburbs. It was a magical place. There were receptions at the French Club, race meetings at the Shanghai Racecourse, and various patriotic gatherings at the British Embassy on the Bund, the city's glamorous waterfront area.
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Of course, as consumers, we want cheap and good products; however, if these production processes are exceeding wastewater discharge standards and even causing heavy metal pollution, they will cause long-lasting damage to the ecological environment and public health.
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I love morning television because it's the most vulnerable time of day, when you are at your rawest, and if I have the ability to make viewers smile, that's a gift from God.
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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.
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In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
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I sometimes try to think of my life as an Iranian, and it is hard to imagine. I am grateful for the life I have had in America and all the amazing opportunities and experiences it has given me. But there is a spirit in Iranians I can see that is unbounded by geography.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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A country that does not fulfill its tasks in protecting the external borders has to cope with the consequences.
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I'm encouraged because you pick up any food magazine and there's two or three recipes involving Indian spices.
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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I'm still having fun, and I'm doing something and I'm seeing the world! I wasn't massively ambitious, but I did always want to do the best I could do.
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And they just saw me on that and - from the time I was 11 until I was 12, I guess. And then when I had just turned 13, they asked me if I wanted to tour with Johnny Cash back East.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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We're all idealistic when young.
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Item numbers are not my cup of tea.
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America's parenting customs can shock foreigners.
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journalism was for me more than a business or a profession. It was a way of living, of experiencing the world even as I instantly distanced myself from it, in order to recreate what I'd witnessed for the public.
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The goal wasn't to create a billion-dollar company. The goal was to create something useful where I could learn things.
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Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend.
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Greatness is always built on this foundation: the ability to appear, speak and act, as the most common man.
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This strange business of what it is to be a writer is this increasingly insane world in which we live, in which surrealism, it seems, is the new realism.
