Salman Rushdie Quotes
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
Salman Rushdie
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I am not in politics to make more money.
Nandan Nilekani
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
Olympia Snowe
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My friends I grew up with were so supportive to me. And I'm not the only one who's done well.
Eddie Marsan
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It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.
Barbara Cooney
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Minorities within nation-states frayed by global capitalism are naturally more resentful of hollowed-out but still heavily centralised systems of political and economic domination.
Pankaj Mishra
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I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.
Garth Risk Hallberg
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If we find ourselves becoming critical of other people we should stop examining them, and start examining ourselves.
William Barclay
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As a matter of fact, politics knows no end. It is Samsara in operation before our eyes, the Samsara of cause and effect, of past and present, of present and future which goes round and round and never ends, What cause and what effect, what past and what present, what present and what future hold for us now in politics? We have wars and wars. What cause? What effect?
Aung San
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My grandma told me never, ever, ever to use soap on my face. But I do use lotion.
Natalia Kills
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I'm not going to say what was being used in the clubhouse; whatever happens in the clubhouse stays in the clubhouse. But it was not like it was in your face.
Rafael Palmeiro
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My dad wouldn't let me date until I was 16.
Zendaya
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
Salman Rushdie
