Salman Rushdie Quotes
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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Africans, we hold on to our youths and whip them into shape.
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I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.
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I think nowadays, women are breaking the borders or the boundaries and also trying to give a new interpretation in terms of impact you can have to the society.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I've had completely gray hair since, like, 30.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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I definitely want people to laugh because I don't think there's a better feeling - I think it's just so fabulous to laugh. I don't mind if people think, either. I think the brain is a very sexy organ.
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One of my earliest memories is of being about three and a half, climbing through the legs of a man who I didn't know was the famous actor, Patrick Magee.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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We are therefore driven by both basic survival instincts and rational thought.
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I can undertake and persevere even without hope of success.
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I have no complaints, except for the world.
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An editor named Kerrie Hughes wanted me to write a short story that brought my fire-spider Smudge from my goblin books into the present-day world. I came up with libriomancy as a way to make that happen.
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I try my damnedest to quirk up anything that I'm in.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
