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 must say that when we wanted to take up arms we approached numerous Western governments for assistance and we were never able to see any but the most junior ministers. When we visited Cuba we were received by the highest officials and were immediately offered whatever we wanted and needed. That was our earliest experience with Cuban internationalism.
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I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.
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He was very concerned about his children potentially being kidnapped or attached, and that's why they were covered up. When he went to Berlin zoo, there were 200 photographers.
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Harry, to Nelson 'Don't forget, there's a Depression coming.'
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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.
