Salman Rushdie Quotes

The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

Salman Rushdie

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• Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Art
  • Play
  • Politics

• He who would not be idle, let him fall in love.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • Fall
  • For Him

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Today
  • Same
  • Saying

• I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.

  

  Yoon Ahn
  • Pretty
  • Simple
  • Nothing

• If I wasn't in fashion, I would have been a psychiatrist.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Fashion
  • Been
  • Psychiatrist

• I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Prove

• I don't use the voice of Bart when I'm making love to my husband, but Marge's voice turns him on a little.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Husband
  • Voice
  • Turns

• Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Important
  • Experience

• My children didn't when they were little because I thought that they had to be of a certain age. I hoped they liked me well enough not to want to see me in that sort of a spot.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Children
  • Age
  • Thought

• Color is born of the interpenetration of light and dark.

  

  Sam Francis
  • Light
  • Dark
  • Color

• In this culture, where entertainers and athletes wield such power, it seems only right to me that they try to make their influence a good one.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Good
  • Power
  • Culture

• I am a very reserved person and have very few friends in the industry, while most of my close ones are from school and college.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • School
  • Friends
  • College

• What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • You
  • Reflection
  • Artistry

• It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Characters

• When I was a kid, like 14 or 15, I played with the waiters from the hotel, 'cause that was the best game. And these guys, they'd let me play. And they were black guys.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Game
  • Black
  • Best

• The ingestion of brain-altering chemicals - legal or illegal - cannot be categorized as good stewardship of our earthly lives.

  

  Salvatore J. Cordileone
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Legal

• I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Try
  • Flowers
  • Construction

• I remember rap music. We used to party and dance off of it. Today it's all about a whole different angle... Rappers are going against each other, and it's more of a bragging, boasting thing.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Music
  • Different
  • Remember

• If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

  

  Liane Moriarty
  • Good
  • Children
  • Parents

• One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No.

  

  Plutarch
  • People

• I'm intrigued by the dark. Out of darkness comes creation.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Dark
  • Creation
  • Darkness

• There was a calling on the Creator, Upon Christ for causes, Until when the Eternal Should deliver those whom he had made. The Lord answered them, Through language and elements: Take the forms of the principal trees, Arranging yourselves in battle array, And restraining the public.

  

  Taliesin

• The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chinese