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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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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The future cannot be predicted, but futures can be invented. It was man's ability to invent which has made human society what it is.
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Eminent nutritionists have traded their independence for the food industry's favors.
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The statesmen of the world who boast and threaten that they have Doomsday weapons are far more dangerous, and far more estranged from 'reality',than many of the people on whom the label 'psychotic' is affixed
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Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.
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Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
