Salman Rushdie Quotes
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
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If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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Today, our economy is about an economy of ideas.
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Cloud services cut both ways in terms of security: you get off-site backup and disaster recovery, but you entrust your secrets to somebody else's hands. Doing the latter increases your exposure to government surveillance and the potential for deliberate or inadvertent breaches of your confidential files.
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Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.
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The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.
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I am not in politics to make more money.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I don't quite know why, but I am long-winded.
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If Egypt is unstable, then the entire region is unstable.
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There's plenty of days when I don't want to eat chicken breast and broccoli and rice, but I know what I have to do, and I know the sacrifice I have to make.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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I don't let anything kill my spirit.
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For the entirety of my career, I have taken the fights that no one wanted because I fear no man.
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We need to learn to accept and certainly mourn any harm that comes to any human being on this earth. But we also need to not be vengeful.
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Let's face it: pop music in its myriad permutations will always be sexually presumptuous, racially controversial and, frequently, politically charged.
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It doesn't really make a lot of sense. We're all just trying to deal with this. It's really shocking.
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Most men have a sunny spot to which they look back in their existence, as most have an impossible future, to attain which all their energies are exerted, and their resources employed. The difference between these visionary scenes is this, that they think a good deal of the latter, but talk a good deal of the former.
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Everybody sings from their diaphragm.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
