Salman Rushdie Quotes

British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

Salman Rushdie

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• In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • World
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• Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean!

  

  Fay Wray
  • Up
  • Done
  • She

• The next step for me with the Up is how it talks with the rest of the home. It's an object that can tell the home where I am and what I'm doing.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Home
  • Step

• But, when Scripture makes a clear distinction between the act of creation and the process of preservation, we cannot accept the idea of a progressive creation process.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Process
  • Act
  • Scripture

• I've actually done a lot of comedy.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • Done
  • Comedy
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• Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • Attention
  • Human

• As we all know... golf is a puzzle without an answer.

  

  Gary Player
  • Know
  • Golf
  • Puzzle

• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and hope I am always in the learning frame of mind in acting or in anything else that I do. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  

  Kajol
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Hope

• I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.

  

  Ireland Baldwin
  • Family
  • Nasty
  • Size

• We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

  

  Wendell Mayes
  • Know
  • Never
  • Navy

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• I kept thinking, 'this must be the coolest job - I'd like to be a professional baseball player.' They were getting paid to play a game, and what a cool lifestyle that was.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Game

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• We are exactly where we have chosen to be.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Where
  • Chosen
  • Exactly

• I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Star
  • Organization
  • New England Patriots

• Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • People
  • Great
  • Always

• The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Up
  • World
  • Over

• The Web is the new way to figure out who's hot and what's not. You can't let TV dictate because it's so polished, so political. It is what they want you to know. The Internet is the raw.

  

  Wale
  • Want
  • Political
  • Internet

• When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Freedom

• I'm a clown, which could be a public health role. I'm really interested in moving our society away from a society needing Xanax and Prozac, and that is really feeling depressed, to one that is celebrating, and so I find just walking around in colorful clothes, people smile.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Society
  • Feeling

• As we grow in our consciousness, there will be more compassion and more love, and then the barriers between people, between religions, between nations will begin to fall. Yes, we have to beat down the separateness.

  

  Ram Dass
  • People
  • Love
  • Fall

• I'm the type of player that doesn't like to play on full stomach.

  

  Ali Krieger
  • Player

• I'm here to pass the baton, so to speak, to some of these new inductees, many of which are guys that I respect in the business as being truly revolutionary.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • Business
  • Respect
  • Speak

• British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Society
  • Never
  • Imperialism