Salman Rushdie Quotes
Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The absence of real pressures from within Iraqi society, from Iran, from the world at large, or even from his own party leaves those of us who would write about the “cause” of this war with nothing to evaluate “objectively” and argue about.
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There used to be this real sense of community integrity in rock. It has really eroded. Everyone seems to be on their own now.
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My happiest moments of growing up in the Bronx were when my mom would bring home a new sports magazine from the candy store. I would jump out of bed and grab it from her. Then I'd rip the front cover right off and tape it to my bedroom wall.
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I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man.
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Many writers who have had to deal with the subject of atrocity can't face it head-on.
