Salman Rushdie Quotes
I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
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The U.S. economy and workers benefit from a strong, healthy relationship between government and business.
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It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
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For me, the greatest fault would be to tell somebody something I'm not.
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If Wikileaks didn't resolve that question for folks - at the end of the day, there are no secrets. We're living in a glass neighborhood, in a fishbowl, and technology, white hat hackers, the folks that are doing the right thing with hacking.
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I think you need brains to do any Shakespeare with any authority. I could do Shakespeare, but not with any authority.
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Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.
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My plan was to stay in Canada to make films.
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I just prepare myself to perform well, to support my teammates to play well, to try to get to the final, to the World Series.
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So I moved to Europe and only came back when directors like Robert Altman would call me after they'd seen my work in Full Metal Jacket.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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I'm an artist at heart.
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People often try to disguise televisions. I always think that makes it worse. It is what it is!
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There's no safe Republican district. You can run, but you cannot hide.
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I always encourage over-tipping if you can afford it because... share the wealth.
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I've always been extremely physically active.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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I was a nursery school teacher, and I worked with youth groups. I loved that job. It was exhausting, but you got a lot back - all their purity and insight and innocence is so on the surface, and they're so unrepressed; they'd really scream at you and then give you a massive kiss.
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I really would like to be involved in things and to understand things, and in some ways you've got to be careful what you wish for because I feel very, very blessed to have such an interesting life and to be able to have little snapshots of lives of people from many different parts of the world.
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Τὸ δυσσεβὲς γὰρ ἔργονμετὰ μὲν πλείονα τίκτει,σφετέρᾳ δ' εἰκότα γέννᾳ.
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Even 'Lord of the Rings' had dwarf-tossing jokes in it. It's like, 'Really?'
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Desire, burning desire, is basic to achieving anything beyond the ordinary.
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I think that a lot of us, whether we are religious or not - there are no words to express some things except religious words. For instance, 'soul.'
