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.'
Quotes to Explore
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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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Honestly, I'd love to say I live this amazing Hollywood lifestyle, but actually, I'm at home with my same friends and cooking. I crochet, I do watercolor. I think what surprised me the most is that that isn't the lifestyle everyone necessarily lives.
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'Curvy' is just a polite way of saying 'fat.'
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We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.
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'Faith' and 'trust' are words that put the power in the hands of an outside force that we are meant to rely on - whether it is God or a person or the universe. Certainty puts the power back in our hands.
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Les Miserables is one of my favorite stories.
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I've never cared for the idea of a career path, or where a film might 'take me.' My love is for acting not money, so I only take on roles that I find challenging, in stories I find interesting.
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BET, I'll never, never, ever forget them for this wonderful blessing they gave to me, to be on the 10th annual BET awards for my comeback.
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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.'
