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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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails.
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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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There is the most wonderful thing called Polaris: it's a very high frequency laser treatment that lifts and tightens the skin.
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I view every film as a commitment to undertake a long journey. I suppose this has to do with my need to leave no stone unturned, and sometimes to even dig deeper into the mine.
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I tried a few grad school programs because I didn't know how to make it... Eventually, I was desperate for a job, and there was a new newspaper opening up in Washington, D.C., called 'The Hill.' Even though my interest in politics wasn't huge, they gave me a job as a copy editor.
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Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.
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For a finite-size system to persist in time (to live), it must evolve in such a way that it provides easier access to the imposed currents that flow through it.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
