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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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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In a Western, you talk more with your eyes and your actions than you do with big speeches. I love that.
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If I can iron out my accent, it opens up another world of possible jobs. Whereas if you have that very strong European accent, it leaves you always being cast as the Hungarian maid or the stripper or whatever. I have voice lessons, and my coach has given me different tongue-twisters to rehearse at home.
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I'm from Brooklyn. I grew up very poor- seven people, four rooms. My dad had no education.
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Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.
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If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.
