Salman Rushdie Quotes
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I favor pocket-sized hard drives that travel between home and office, syncing with computers on both ends.
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Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.
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I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.
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People have their own opinions but sometimes with the media things get chopped up and cut around to make stories out of it.
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No decent career was ever founded on a public.
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The success of a particular policy prescription is always a gamble.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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Well, put it like this, if you're not a kid, you're a wizard.
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The pressure on women to be thin is like a plague. I have gone through my life, like a lot of women, rating my experiences on the basis of, 'Was I thin at that time or fat?' And it doesn't seem to let up.
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When I'm governor, we're not going to be silent like Bruce Rauner. Illinois will be a firewall against Donald Trump's destructive and bigoted agenda.
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I like to work and it kind of keeps me in line, which is very good because I need that structure.
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You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
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I think architects tend to believe that they can almost do anything, which is a wonderful characteristic, but in some cases you just fall flat.
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I've cooked plenty of meals when I was sad, lonely, depressed, angry, bored, and/or under the weather. My primary aim in these circumstances is generally to cheer myself up, to fill my stomach with something warm so I can feel comforted and fed, usually just with a quick soup or an omelet.
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I don't see myself in terms of artifice. I see myself as a real person who chooses to live my life in an open way - artistically.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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Growing up eating fruits and vegetables fresh from our farm added a lot to the way I taste and look at food today, and I wanted the same for my kids and other kids.
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The good and bad things are what form us as people... change makes us grow.
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I've already had a hard time dealing with some of the trappings of success and turned to some pretty stereotypical escape routes - ways of escaping my own reality and falling into some pretty clichéd situations.
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Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.
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It doesn't always happen according to the way you have planned things out but I feel if you have covered most of the aspects, it does help out there in the middle.
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In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
