Salman Rushdie Quotes
If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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I learned that instead of relying on and imitating American music, there is a better chance for an Asian artist to succeed if he or she follows his or her own culture.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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A man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.
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I can do whatever I want.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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I find the business world hard.
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When boasting ends, there dignity begins.
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A long-lasting and sustained recovery will never be achieved through massive government spending programs.
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For many people who are so lost in their minds, so much involved in their thought processes, the only moments they have when they are not trapped in that is when they are relating to their animal, their pet.
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Yes, the United States is still the great meritocracy it's always been; but now, if you aren't brilliant or beautiful or both, there isn't much to do, because they can do it cheaper in Shanghai or Mumbai.
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Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific box.
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God is not something I think about but something I experience as an energy, a Presence. I do find it easier to pray to a female Presence or an androgynous Presence.
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My father speaks for himself, through his music.
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Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
