Salman Rushdie Quotes
'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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The main thing for me is to make sure our home is peaceful, that it's healthy, that the kids are good.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me.
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I honored my commitments, and as president, I will honor every commitment that I make to the men and women of this country.
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Filipinos are not worse than any other colonized people except that our colonization was a little longer, and the independence movement was always dictated in political terms, never in social ones. We borrowed terms, but we didn't understand them.
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The best a health care system can do is to equip itself to meet the needs of each individual woman and birth. Those needs run the gamut from undisturbed home birth to planned cesarean section.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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If you could stay at this stage - you're 17, and you're always going to be in love with your first love - that's probably attractive.
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I love meat - I'm Cuban; I grew up eating meat, platanos, and arroz con pollo. I don't believe in starving yourself, but sometimes I do cleanses and diets to prepare for a role.
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Since ancient times, people from throughout Asia have brought to Japan their talents, knowledge and energy, helping to lay the basis for Japan's existence as a country.
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To win a championship, you have to have a little bit of luck on your side.
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The last day of your life is still going to be a day.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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There's probably one more story about Bosnia that I'd like to do, because I spent a fair amount of time on the Serb side of the lines, which isn't apparent in the other books.
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I've been through a lot of experiences in my life being in the biggest band in the world.
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I race to win. If I am on the bike or in a car it will always be the same.
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The more you focus on sex without love, and drugs and violence, lifestyle of intimidation and recycling, the less energy you spend on opening up the big tent.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
