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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It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.
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Though my conduct on the 10th of August 1792 was the act of my life of which I have most reason to be proud, I will here merely do homage to the worthy martyrs of the national sovereignty and the sworn laws, who, while they supported constitutional royalty, manifested the highest degree of republican virtue.
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Adventure-travel is any activity used as a conduit to observe, share, enjoy, suffer, encounter, or experience that which is outside the boundaries of one's own day-to-day life. You don't have to go to Thailand or Central America to be an adventurer-traveler, but you can. And it's probably better not to have a specific goal, but there are no requirements about that, either. 'Boundaries' is the operative word here; real, implied, or imagined, if your body or mind crosses a boundary, you are doing it.
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As long as I'm getting waves and having fun, the results tend to take care of themselves.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
