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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Modern medical advances have helped millions of people live longer, healthier lives. We owe these improvements to decades of investment in medical research.
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Philosophy, if it cannot answer so many questions as we could wish, has at least the power of asking questions which increase the interest of the world, and show the strangeness and wonder lying just below the surface even in the commonest things of daily life.
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I don't like to talk about things unless I have to. I don't like to talk a scene to death or overanalyze it, especially if I feel like I have some way in on my own.
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In Brazil we have a comic strip in the newspaper. That one also attracts a different kind of followers.
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I do not need the idea of God to explain the world I live in.
