Salman Rushdie Quotes
An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Every time I do a talk show or something, I'll be like, 'I'm doing 'Chandelier,' right?' and they're like, 'No, you're doing a skit and three dances.' It's different every time. I never really know what I'm doing until the day before.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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It's an evolution. The same team doesn't always dominate, and it goes in cycles.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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I've been missing Japanese literature so much of late.
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We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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We would like to preserve Europe for Europeans.
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'Game of Thrones' has multiple story lines, multiple countries, and it's complete fantasy.
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I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
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When I'm on vacation here in the States, I can do all kinds of stuff; I can train and keep busy.
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I've done a number of things in the spirit of employee motivation. I tend to be a storyteller and a student of history. I often tell stories of great battles, like the battle of Thermopylae, to inspire teams who face what appear to be insurmountable odds.
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A dress should never take over someone.
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We can learn more in an hour praying, when praying indeed, than from many hours of rigorous study.
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Maybe this was how you stayed sane in wartime: a handful of noble deeds amid the chaos.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.
