Salman Rushdie Quotes
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In social media, people cannot build big followings organically unless what they are putting out to the world has value.
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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.
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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.
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I've actually done a lot of 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.
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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.
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I have received nasty e-mails, messages on Twitter and ridiculous comments, not only about my size, but my family.
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We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.
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Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.
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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.
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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.
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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I'm still overwhelmed and, at the same time, kind of star struck that I am part of this New England Patriots organization.
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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.
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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.
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I think it's nice for women to try to be sexy for their man.
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My senior year of high school, I got into UCLA, but my family couldn't afford it.
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
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I've definitely learned that if you really want something, just go for it, no matter how much it scares you.
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I never wanted to be the most famous, the most beautiful, the most extravagant.
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There is no development strategy more beneficial to society as a whole - women and men alike - than the one which involves women as central players.
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It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions.
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British society has never been cleansed of the filth of imperialism.
